Behind Our Walls | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Behind Our Walls tells the story of a group of inmates in Michigan, as they seek a college education behind bars through | dG1fQkhNaEZadE1wczg

Transcript

00:00 (soft music)

00:02 - There's a lot of bad things that happen in prison.

00:05 It's a dark place.

00:07 You have all the time in the world.

00:10 So you can either become a better human being

00:13 or you become a worse human being.

00:16 And the choice is yours.

00:17 - What are we about as human beings?

00:23 What is the best possible lives a human could live?

00:27 And how would one do that?

00:30 - I wish I could tell you I knew about Calvin.

00:33 I was so grateful to be, no, I just wanted a degree.

00:35 Give me a piece of paper,

00:36 I'm gonna knock it off my bucket list.

00:38 - When I did get incarcerated,

00:41 I tested at a third grade reading level.

00:44 I could barely write and I could barely read.

00:46 - We've been in prison five, 10, 15, 20 years.

00:53 Have not been studying all those years.

00:56 You can think that they will make it easy

00:59 because of that, but they don't.

01:01 This is real college.

01:04 (upbeat music)

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01:09 (upbeat music)

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