A Place to Stand
MovieTitle | A Place to Stand |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Mar 8, 2015 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Daniel Glick |
Production country | US |
Run time | 86 min. |
Jimmy Santiago Baca was a petty thief and a drug dealer when he was sentenced to five years in Arizona State Prison, one of the deadliest prisons in America. Baca began his incarceration violent, angry and illiterate, yet taught himself how to read and write, discovering a passion for poetry that ultimately saved his life.