In Mexico City's infamous Lecumberri prison, three drug-addicted convicts celebrate getting drugs from one of their the mothers. They are found out and locked up in the "apando," the dreaded punishment cell. Protests over the treatment of those held in the cell lead to a bloody confrontation.

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

For 40 years, the community-organizing group ACORN advocated for America’s poorest communities, whil...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Hamza, a powerful county landowner killed a hardworking villager named Ahmet. Soon after this incide...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcera...

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away...

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the ...

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting,...

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially...

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...

A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after hi...

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth K...

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder ...

When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison:...

My Beautiful Jinjiimaa is an emotional romantic drama in a setting few in the U.S. have ever seen. A...