In Prison My Whole Life
Jan 18, 2008 | IMDB 0
90 min Watch NowDocumentary
William Francome is a fairly typical, white middle-class guy. Typical except for the fact that he is about to embark on a journey into the dark heart of the American judicial system; the tangled world of renowned Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
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