Prison Song

Prison Song is a 2001 United States prison film about a boy brought up in group homes with a gift and passion for art.

Later that night, Elijah and his best friend, Thomas Wilson Dominique Walters, find themselves incarcerated at a juvenile correctional facility for playing a prank on a police officers with a laser pointer. When Elijahs mother comes to get him and is told he could not be released, Elijah is taken from her with both trying their best to get to one another. She assaults an officer by stabbing him with a pen and then is taken to a mental institution. The officer she assaulted tried to stop her when she tries to take Elijah out of the facility. Elijah has one visit with his mother who is unaware of her surroundings due to obvious medication given from the facility. Elijah eventually is released from the juvenile facility and put in a foster home.The film picks up years later, and Elijah QTip is now a sensitive adult with dreams of becoming an artist with the support of his girlfriend Jolie Denee Rivera. He is offered a spot at a prestigious art school under scholarship, but it gets taken away and is now unable to afford the tuition. Much to the chagrin of Cee who Elijah still sees through prison visits, Elijah considers a foray into the world of drug dealing. Though he eventually decides against that route, he winds up in jail for accidentally killing one of his foster brothers Big Pete Fat Joe by pushing him on to the subway tracks during an altercation. Elijah is then found guilty of seconddegree murder and sentenced to fifteen years to life. ........

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