California State Prison, Corcoran

And that's when I realized, that was the first time I ever realized the power of this and how we could actually change lives in really powerful ways and help people connect.

And that led us into a whole bunch of other prisons in California until we were finally in the darkest prison in California, Corcoran State Prison.

And we walked into this room, cinder block room, and there were 15 cages.

And in each cage is a man shackled at the wrist and shackled at the ankles.

But the ideology is more important because Obama was raised by Frank Marshall Davis in Hawaii.

Obama's best friend, Keith Kakagawa, growing up, I met with him in Corcoran State Prison, where he was incarcerated here in California several times in many letters.

And he told me the story that when they were in high school, Obama ran into the Kenyan, was laying over in Hawaii, Barack Obama the Kenyan was in Hawaii laying over on a trip from Hong Kong, and they ran into him, and the Kenyan student kind of blew him off, wouldn't talk to him.

And that's when Obama confronted Frank Marshall Davis and his parents and said, you all lied to me.

At San Quentin's death row for 40 years.

And the final two years, I spent at Corcoran State Prison as I was being released because the state was fighting me.

They finally admitted a judge, exonerated me and said, look, let him loose, release him.

And it happened for about 10 years it was going on.

We used to talk through the vent.

We was in Corcoran State Prison.

We used to talk through the vent.

And he asked me one day, we was in there.

Tell me about it.

So we ended up in Corcoran State Prison here in California, which is one of California's supermaxed.

And we were given the challenge to work with men coming out of violent gangs.

And for three years, I taught 100 feet away from Charles Manson's cell.