San Quentin State Prison (SQ) is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco in the unincorporated town of San Quentin in Marin County. San Quentin opened in July 1852, it is the oldest prison in California. The state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006.
French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with t...
A group of men share a small space in a prison metal workshop in Botosani, Romania. When they’re not...
Part of a trilogy about the reality of living in a French prison.
Emperors of Nothing is an unprecedented immersion within Forest, a prison in Brussels notorious for ...
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being releas...
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial a...
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economi...
Is it possible to escape from fate if you live quietly and unnoticed, without causing harm to anyone...
Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Prote...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
Łukasz, an unemployed geography graduate, is wrongfully arrested for robbery. His alibi is weak, and...
Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of yo...
After being involved in a hit and run incident, a wealthy spoiled brat was sent to prison and must l...
During Christmas week in 1949, escape artist Carl August Lorentzen was on the run after digging his ...
Richard, a lonely and well-meaning prison officer, is put in charge of reading and censoring the let...
Young and in prison for theft, Daphne falls in love with Josh, another inmate. Their love story exis...
A common man imprisoned in a corrupt system questions whether jails truly rehabilitate or push indiv...