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.
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.
SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fell...
A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps i...
Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these event...
An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait fr...
Brindisi, Italy: a focal point in cigarette smuggling. The director returns to her hometown to see w...
Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...
The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.
The internal journey of eight men, who, through a theater workshop, go through the different prisons...
Kung-Fu Ombijam, an artist and former inmate, and Facundo, a young man still serving his sentence, a...
Achille, 13, awaits, full of hope, the release from prison of his father, unknown and fantasized. Hi...
Disgraced pro football quarterback Paul Crewe lands in a Texas federal penitentiary, where manipulat...
A man condemned to die is allowed a prostitute for his last night alive, but the two of them have da...
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol...
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainm...
Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Brita...