[1] As an older, divorced woman, Clarke wasn't accepted as a candidate by a religious order or congregation, so she founded an institute for those in her situation: the Eudist Servants of the Eleventh Hour.

[1][7] She also persuaded the jail administrators to discontinue prisoner incarceration in substandard cells known as the tumbas ("tombs").

[8][9] The road outside the jail, known until recently as Los Pollos ("The Chickens"), was renamed in November 2007 to Madre Antonia in her honor.

[1] Brenner is profiled in the book The Prison Angel, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.

Produced and written by Jody Hammond, photographed and edited by Ronn Kilby, and narrated by Susan Sarandon, the film took five years to make.