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The 50 is a feature-length documentary that asks how a group so underestimated became agents of radical change and the first men to become California certified counselors while inmates of that same state’s prison system. We step alongside these men in an exploration of trauma, redemption, and the complicated humanity of their stories.
- 'I Never Thought I Would Come Home'
- 'I Was Full of Anger'
- 'The Best Counselors in The Country'
- 'I Was Healing by Telling You My Story'
- 'It Is Informing How I Parent Both My Children'
- 'I Needed to Do Something For Me — For That Little Boy'
In 2006 — after a federal judge ruled the conditions of the California prison system were so bad they amounted to "cruel and unusual punishment," and after California state passed a lawrequiring rehabilitating programing — the offender mentor certification program (OMCP) was formed. The OMCP helps people serving life sentences become trained and ce...
Clark grew up in an abusive household. His mother was an alcoholic and a drug addict, he says, and Clark quickly became the focus of her ire. Seeking refuge, Clark moved in with his aunt. It was while staying with his aunt that he says he was indoctrinated into a gang and taught how to sell drugs so he could "contribute" financially to the family. ...
It would take years before Clark stepped away from gang culture for good. He got his GED. He started to learn a trade while incarcerated. He was moved to a state prison. Clark applied to be part of the pilot program for prison counselors in 2006 and faced his own childhood trauma — his mother beating him with a crowbar; the days he had to walk over...
It was during that conversation, that Clark says his mother shared that she had been sexually abused by his grandmother, beaten by his father and by his stepfather. In a written letter, Clark's mother told TODAY.com and the makers of "The 50" film that Clark had her permission to tell her story as he explained his own. "I began to realize she was a...
Brenton Gieser, director and producer of "The 50," is a father of two. As he filmed Clark and the other two subjects of the film — as well as the most recent graduating class of incarcerated substance abuse counselors — he said he was also learning about fatherhood. "I was shifted by them, just being in their presence," Gieser tells TODAY.com. "See...
Over 500 men and women have graduated from the offender mentor certification program since its inception. People who participate in educational programs like OCMP are 43 percent less likely to end up back in prison,according to one large studyby the RAND Corporation. "Any time I talk about it I get emotional," Clark says. "Inmates teaching inmates ...
- Danielle Campoamor
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Scroll. The Fifty is an adventure story unfolding in real time. A story of an attempt to climb and ski all the lines in the book, “The Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America.”. It’s a journey, a struggle, an obsession and most of all, an excuse to have a hell of a good time in the mountains. — Cody Townsend.
Apr 8, 2024 · While serving life sentences in a dangerously overcrowded and drug-saturated prison system, 50 men embark on a radical journey to become the first incarcerat...
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Feb 18, 2024 · THE 50. By Brenton Gieser. While serving life sentences in a dangerously overcrowded and drug-saturated prison system, 50 men embark on a radical journey to become some of the first incarcerated Substance Abuse Counselors in the country. The 50 is a powerful study on trauma and repair, a universal look at the long and winding road to heal, and ...
Synopsis. In the dangerously overcrowded California State prison system, 50 men serving life sentences are given the opportunity to become substance abuse counselors. As the first-ever participants in the Offender Mentor Program, the group reckons with their own demons as they excavate the deep trauma of their fellow inmates.
- 91 min
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The 50 is a documentary that follows five people who are released from prison after serving long sentences. Watch the film at upcoming screenings across the US or online.
