Michael Thompson spent more than two decades behind bars for convictions stemming from a marijuana sale. At 4 a.m. on Thursday, he finally walked out of prison to greet his family and the ...

Michael Thompson Thompson, 71, is a Flint, Michigan Native and criminal justice reform activist. He served a 25 year life sentence for cannabis offenses and was released in January 2021.

The Sentence of Michael Thompson is presented by MSNBC Films and Doc+, a Synonymous Pictures production, directed by Kyle Thrash and Haley Elizabeth Anderson, produced by Thrash and W. Ian Ross.

Michael Thompson has been in prison for 24 years, serving what his attorneys say is essentially “a death sentence.” The 69-year-old was convicted in the late 1990s following a marijuana sale ...

Michael Thompson, 69, was awakened one night at 3 a.m. by his cellmate at the Muskegon Correctional Facility in Michigan. The prisoner was crouching on the ground, ...