Redeemer (2002)

When a Black Panther raid on the house of a dope dealer goes awry an innocent young man is killed and the leader of the raid team a Panther named Charles Henderson Obba Babatunde is sentenced to life in prison Bestselling author Paul Freeman Modine offers a creativewriting class in Hendersons prison initially looking for a story for his next book but when Henderson becomes his student Freeman starts to investigate Hendersons case and becomes convinced that after 20 years Henderson deserves to be releasedbut the next step is convincing the sister of the man whose death Henderson is responsible for