Misguided Over-Liberal Nonsense...
All of the reviews I've read use words like "moving", "uplifting" and the whole slant of the film is clearly to make us see that criminals aren't monsters and can show remorse...
However, other than an abuser of small girls, not one of the inmates in the film took any responsibility for their actions. They strangled women because they reminded them of their mothers, and their mother were bad, they shot people and robbed places because of the availability of guns and because of peer pressure, they had stifling parents, they had dismissive parents, they were gay and confused, they were only 21 and didn't know what they were doing (my god, if you don't know right from wrong at 21 you never wiil!)... it was excuse after excuse.
The film didn't glamourise their crimes, but it did ask us to pity these people "who society has ostracised" (bad society, how could it be so mean?) all because they could cry on cue whilst talking of a bad childhood and the need for redemption/acceptance, and shout and mispronounce their way through a Shakespeare play. Not because they showed true remorse through accepting responsibility for their own actions.