The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen inmates learn about paper production, clay modeling, sculpting and painting. Through this artistic interaction, they share their personal experiences of how they became involved with the world of drug trafficking.
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...
Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these event...
A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, Cali...
Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women t...
This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained...
Devil worship? Could it be real? Follow up to Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground.
A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps i...
The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons...
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...
Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see w...
The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.
An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait fr...
Kung-Fu Ombijam, an artist and former inmate, and Facundo, a young man still serving his sentence, a...
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal sys...
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainm...
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of h...
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol...
Dennis is a new inmate. Mike is an older black inmate. Together the two face hostile prison officals...