When documentary producers first approached Beverly Walker about featuring her family in a film, the Milwaukee mother and grandmother knew what that meant: cameras trailing them, her cherished privacy breached.
But her husband, Baron Walker, by then having served nearly two decades of a 60-year sentence, saw an opportunity.
“I thought it could be quite helpful, though at the moment I didn’t know to what extent,” says Baron, who had been sentenced in 1996 for being party to a pair of bank robberies. “In prison you have no voice…. This movie, I realized, could be that voice…”
[For more on this story by Lornet Turnbull, go to https://www.yesmagazine.org/pe...carceration-20181024]
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