The United States now bears the ominous title of being the world's most prolific jailer: with only 5% of the population, we represent 25% of the incarcerated. The vast majority of our prisoners are functionally illiterate - even if they went to school - and an inordinate number of them are from ethnic minorities. In this short film, a former gang-member and felon from South Central Los Angeles shares his own 'path to prison', helping to explain how so many capable and intelligent young men - especially African-American males - end up uneducated and behind bars in the 'home of the free'.—Anonymous