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The prison when you're very restricted, but that's the life that paul just referred to, and showing how you got here with a life that in some ways, that's been, that's been paused. yeah,i think the life inside the prison was mostly represented through his calls. we had a lot of calls, a lot of pictures so we felt very restricted in that way. i think in the filmmaking, since it felt very restricted, all the images representing, this prison felt restricted because we were just listening to michael which is all we really need to hear is michael and then in his in the clemency hearing, we're just ...

I'm not that person anymore. i don't have that criminal mentality anymore. period. i'm done with that. all i wanna do is get back to my life, get back to my life and get back■ you know what i'm saying? try to build me some kind of foundation for my kids. - all right. thank you. - i think the thing that attracted me to take this case is that it's the most disparate sentencing i've seen in my career, which says a lot. because i handle a lot of post-conviction matters and a lot of matters that deal with these kind of injustices. beyond that, the governor in michigan has unabashedly held the pos...

- police and prosecutors packaged the weed and the guns together like they were one big crime. - three pounds of marijuana with no weapon. you see how it doesn't make sense when we go to talk about the guns? the guns have nothing to do with the drugs. - his record is not very substantial in the first place. and to see this kind of sentence, i can't imagine what was going through the judge's mind. - i don't even think people would get sent to prison at all for those types of crimes today. we're really trying to keep our community safe, and nothing from these facts tell me that my community was ...

And there's a shadow and bars kind of across his face. so that's how we kind of got his that element across, but it's mainly about focusing on michaels humanity. yeah. and similarly, let's also before we go kyle, look at this quiet moment when he does leave prison. final thought from you, some of the most important stories of injustice, are the hardest to tell because powerful forces make them hard to tell. sure yeah, i mean, you know, it was a difficult journey, you know, kind of being able to kind of tell this and work with michael and hailey and the nonprofit last prisoner project that are ...

The only, the only one i can depend on was god. and i believed in him, i believed that one day. yeah, i believed in him. and that's what got you through. yeah. like i said, i don't know you, but i appreciate meeting you and you telling your story here. hayley, your thoughts. thank you for having us. and i'm just really happy to be seeing this day with michael. our whole goal is just to put a face to all of the numbers. like there's michael knows them. there's tons of other people that are in just like him. and we just wanted to use the film to kind of bring the humanity to the story because, y...