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