The last ten years have been a time of great change and frustration for the four surviving men featured in the decade-old prison documentary, THE FARM: LIFE INSIDE ANGOLA. The cameras first met Bishop Eugene Tanniehill, Ashanti Witherspoon, Vincent Simmons, and George Crawford in Angola's Louisiana State Penitentiary in 1998 as they served out their long sentences. Ten years later, George Crawford finds himself almost exactly where he began his first day in prison, tending the fields of Angola. An older and wiser man, the years since he entered Angola at age 22 have been difficult. He struggles to maintain relationships outside of prison and tries to work towards trustee status. Ashanti Witherspoon was freed from Angola on parole shortly after THE FARM was broadcast. and now works as a motivational speaker and mentor. In 2007, the governor of Louisiana pardoned Bishop Eugene Tanniehill after the Bishop had spent nearly 50 years behind bars. Now living in Brooklyn, New York, the Bishop is adjusting to life on the outside, and testifying to others about his remarkable journey. Vincent Simmons maintains his innocence and continues to fight for a new trial. The victims of the crime for which he was charged have grown and moved on. Louisiana State Penitentiary, led by Warden Burl Cain, has seen many changes over the past decade, including a new Bible college, a prisoner-run television station, and record-low incidents of inmate-on-inmate violence.
