‘There Should Be No Prisons,’ Filmmakers Tell Incarcerated Men at San Quentin Film Festival

Samuel L. Jackson is sitting at the edge of a fountain in the center of a beautiful courtyard. A few feet away from us, there’s an ensemble of violinists and guitarists and drummers playing music from all over the world. Jackson is here, he tells me, for asking people, “What’s in your wallet?”

Samuel L. Jackson and I in the courtyard of the San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Phil Bray for San Quentin FIlm Festival

But no, he’s not taping a Capital One commercial. I should mention that his middle initial stands for Lamont, not Leroy — this isn’t the “Pulp Fiction”

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