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TOPICS: Alcoholism  Addiction  AA  Cocaine  Heroin  The House We
All Live In  On a visit to Rikers Island, Eugene
Jarecki—director of this year's Sundance-winning anti-drug war
film The House I Live In—tells The Fix about his campaign to
change America's drug laws for good.   Eugene Jarecki and Rikers
Island—home to 100,000 Americans a year. Photo via  By Will
Godfrey   | Share  It seems about right that it's raining as we
drive over the bridge to Rikers Island in a prison van with
metal grills over the windows. We're riding with Eugene Jarecki,
the director and writer of The House I Live In—this year's
Sundance-winning, Oscar-shortlisted documentary examining the
cruel grip of America's War on Drugs. A screening for prisoners
is taking place at New York City's vast jail complex—an
establishment that drug laws feed well.  Jarecki is a curly-
haired ball of energy in the back of the van. With his
characteristic rapid delivery, he relates how a female p