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. The film centers around a character named Elijah (Q-Tip), who is an adolescent (Justin 'DJ Jus' Spaulding) at the story’s outset. His mother (Mary J. Blige) is a hard-working woman who’s spent the last several years attending night school – with the eventual goal of becoming a lawyer. But given that she’s from a lower class area,... more

Prison Song is a 2001 United States prison film about a boy brought up in group homes with a gift and passion for art. The film centers around a character named Elijah (Q-Tip), who is an adolescent (Justin 'DJ Jus' Spaulding) at the story’s outset. His mother (Mary J. Blige) is a hard-working woman who’s spent the last several years attending night school – with the eventual goal of becoming a lawyer. But given that she’s from a lower class area, she’s having a tough time finding employment as a legal secretary. Her fiance, Cee (Harold Perrineau), a photographer and supporter of the family who has a genuine bond with Elijah later is incarcerated after assaulting an officer who began harassing him on a street corner where he was working taking pictures of pedestirans that passed by. He ends up serving twenty-five to life term for having three consecutive charges. Later that night Elijah finds himself incarcerated at a juvenile correctional facility for a prank played on a police... less