In prisons, jails and juvenile facilities, the United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, costing the country billion each year to operate. Creating a booming business for the entertainment industry to convey prison life through films, documentaries and television shows, Beyond Scared Straight, Jail and American's Hardest Prisons are some of them. Allow citizens to use their imagination to imagine what it would be like, stripped of all dignity and locked up to live in a six-by-eight cell in a central building for an extended period of time. But how accurate are movies, TV shows and documentaries about life behind bars? Hollywood's view of prison life is often inaccurate, using obscure facts to show its audiences the daily lives and various experiences of prisoners. Creating a misconception among the citizens of the United States about the prison and its inmates. Literacy works, concerning actual accounts of inmate experiences that an inmate has written or outsourced to an author similar to A Life for a Life, contain more detailed and authentic material. Food consumption, violence, sexual intercourse, corrupt guards, and health care are various exaggerated topics in films such as Animal Factory that books, magazines, and biographies like A Life for a Life convey in greater detail to help an individual. create a better understanding of the real realities of life behind bars. By comparing the two, Animal Factory and A Life for a Life, an individual can correct any false assumptions they may have regarding prison life. Sex in prison is a constant trend. Hunger and violence are second nature to humans, as is the urge to reproduce. Adjusting a basic human nature, as simple as prison sex...... middle of paper ...... yes, controlling institutions is the top priority, contradicting Hollywood's bias. Additionally, the film showed long lines of prisoners going to the commissary to acquire various things. The book described a military-style system in which inmates were given an item sheet listing goods on hand to indicate which products they wanted. After examination and transaction of the money from the prisoners' funds, their belongings were centralized and collected. This limits overcrowding in high-risk areas in prisons, reducing the risk of violence or rioting. However, the violence in the film, particularly in the courtyard, where random stabbings and shootings of convicts were heard to disperse inmates disobeying orders from the guard tower. Appropriately interrupting prison life and the violence that takes place behind prison walls and that America's worst citizens experience daily..