The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest

Once known as Houdini for his multiple and improbable jailbreaks, Mark DeFriest was condemned to Florida’s worst prison after a lone psychiatrist reversed four court appointed psychiatrists and declared Mark was faking mental illness. Over 30 years later, Mark is still struggling to understand how to survive a rigid and unforgiving system, whilst his remaining supporters forge an unlikely alliance to argue for his freedom in front of the Florida Parole Commission.