Cheryl Dunye's Stranger Inside (2001)..
Stranger Inside
television film by Cheryl Dunye
Stranger Inside is a made-for-televisioncrimedrama film directed by Cheryl Dunye that premiered on cable television in The story primarily concerns African American women in prison.
Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., helped to produce it. In a issue of Feminist Studies, Dunye stated that she worked with actual female inmates to produce the script.[1]
Plot
Treasure Lee (Yolonda Ross) learns that her biological mother Brownie (Davenia McFadden) is incarcerated in an adult prison, so she purposely gets into trouble in order to be transferred from a juvenile facility to an adult women's facility in order to meet her.
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In the new prison, she reunites with an old friend Shadow (LaTanya Hagans). She meets new inmates, such as Leisha (Medusa), an aspiring rapper, and Doodle (Ella Joyce), a religious, homophobic woman who is involved with a male correctional officer.
When Treasure asks about Brownie, Leisha resp