A Place to Stand (NR)
synopsis
Told through extensive interviews with Jimmy, his family, friends and peers, A Place to Stand follows Jimmy's path from Estancia, New Mexico - where he lived with his indigenous grandparents - through childhood abandonment, adolescent drug dealing and a subsequent 5-year narcotics sentence at Arizona State Prison in Florence, one of the most violent prisons in the country.
Brutalized by the inhumanity of his incarceration, Jimmy survived by exploring deep within, discovering poetry at his soul's core. Through the life changing capacity of poetry, writing and arts, he stepped away from the violence and negativity around him, healing the wounds of his childhood and opening him to a new future.
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synopsis
Told through extensive interviews with Jimmy, his family, friends and peers, A Place to Stand follows Jimmy's path from Estancia, New Mexico - where he lived with his indigenous grandparents - through childhood abandonment, adolescent drug dealing and a subsequent 5-year narcotics sentence at Arizona State Prison in Florence, one of the most violent prisons in the country.
Brutalized by the inhumanity of his incarceration, Jimmy survived by exploring deep within, discovering poetry at his soul's core. Through the life changing capacity of poetry, writing and arts, he stepped away from the violence and negativity around him, healing the wounds of his childhood and opening him to a new future.
