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Freud be damned: there is perhaps no family role more fraught than that of a father. Men are expected to play the role of protector, provider, politician, peacemaker, or even punisher. But what about those men who never had the luxury of being properly fathered—or those for whom their own experience
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Inside the chapel at California State Prison, Sacramento, three members of the public enter into an intensive group-therapy session with convicts. Over four days, the men tear down their defenses, laying their pasts bare in emotional and sometimes physical ways. The prisoners and civilians are brought face-to-face with the men they were—and the men they want to become.