San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, was known as America's most dangerous prison. Now it's working to help inmates learn skills that they can leverage once released, including filmmaking.

"We just out here showing people that just because we made a mistake, don't mean that we are a mistake," said Dante D. Jones.

Jones organized the San Quentin Media Fest, but his path to that position took some detours.

"I was locked up for 17 years," explained Jones. "When I first came in, there was not even an inkling of an idea that something like the Media Center at San Quentin existed. I was there at San Quentin for about three years. It's where I got my bones in the media world."

The Media Center at San Quentin gave him more reason to want to get out.

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