The Power of Community

"What rehabilitated me and made me see a different path was another prisoner," he says. "I will not let them turn me into what they want me to be, you know, bro, bro said it best." The film is about the life of Michael Jackson's former cellmate James Byrd Jr., who served time for drug possession before being released on parole in 2009. He has since become an advocate for prisoners' rights through his advocacy group Prisoners For Justice (P4J)

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