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.
Direction
Cohen lets silences speak louder than any confessional.
Production
Angola's oppressive architecture becomes a character itself.
Director
Lisa R. Cohen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Angola was once called 'the bloodiest prison in America' and remains 75% Black despite Louisiana's demographics.
The hospice program was started by inmate volunteers in 1998 after the prison refused funding; guards initially bet on which patients would die first.
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