The Quilters follows the daily lives of several quilters inside the sewing room at South Central Correctional Center, a Level 5 maximum-security prison in a small town two hours south of St. Louis, MO. From design to completion, the men reveal their struggles, triumphs, and sense of pride in creating something beautiful in this windowless, sacred space deep within the prison walls.
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00:00This environment, it's a jungle.
00:06All the other guys don't even have a clue how we feel up here.
00:21Oops, wrong side.
00:27They call them sharps.
00:31We're a little community within a big community.
00:35Organized chaos is the easiest way to describe that room.
00:38I let my demon out a few times in prison, and I'm not proud of it.
00:46They may or may not have a date.
00:49They may not be going home.
00:51It's just hard to talk about.
00:54Around here, anybody can get in trouble.
00:57We're just trying to do better.
00:58We all ain't perfect, but we trying.
01:02This is what puts me on the outside.
01:05When I do this, I don't even be in here.
01:28We're just trying to do better.
01:30We're just trying to do better.
01:31We're just trying to do better.
01:32We're just trying to do better.
01:33We're just trying to do better.
01:34We're just trying to do better.
01:35We're just trying to do better.
01:36We're just trying to do better.
01:37We're just trying to do better.
01:38We're just trying to do better.
01:39We're just trying to do better.
01:40We're just trying to do better.
01:41We're just trying to do better.
01:42We're just trying to do better.
01:43We're just trying to do better.
01:44We're just trying to do better.