Serving Life - film

Chris Engel 7/28/122:00 AM

Incredible film about prisoners getting "turned around" doing in-house hospice.

“The guys that have done this for years now, had they had the compassion they got now, had they had it on the street, they would’ve never committed the crime they committed to come here.” -- Lane Nelson, 2^nd degree murder, 60 yrs & hospice volunteer since 1997 (program inception) (3:14 mins. in)

“We’re supposed to correct deviant behavior that’s what "Corrections" is…. The criminal is a selfish person whatever he wants he takes it. So the way to be the opposite of that taker is to be the giver. The ultimate gift is to be the hospice caregiver.” -- Burl Cain, Warden (13:21 mins. in)

http://tiny.cc/servinglife (note: two commercials in Chinese precede the program)

Forest Whitaker, producer. Jul 2011.

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