Serving Life

Serving Life

2011 · 85 min · ★ 5.3 · TV Movie, Documentary

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.

Directed by Lisa R. Cohen

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