Ghosts of Attica

An exchange of video messages between an artist and an inmate, a surprising and intimate portrait from behind prison walls.

The plastic artist Cesar Arechiga recreates his living room and studio in the maximum-security prison of Puente Grande, Jalisco, in which fifteen inma...

'Don't build prisons, they cost too much!' In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough-on-crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented p...

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as prisoners in the desert of Arizona, 3,000 miles, and ac...

Going to the doctor to make a diagnosis or to have a treatment is a common thing in the outside world. But for every prisoner it is a very difficult o...

In America, the prison system has become a place of retribution, not restoration. Inmates are often treated as sub-human, and often find themselves fe...

Twenty-five years after the biggest riot in British penal history, this film brings together the ringleaders of the trouble with the prison guards the...

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Aca...

Survivors of violent crimes and prisoners incarcerated for murder connect to undergo astonishing transformations, liberating themselves from the debil...

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

A look beyond the shock and inhumanity of prison rape to the intricate social hierarchy that keeps it alive. A filmmaker goes deep inside Alabama's in...

French visual artist-director JR (co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary FACES PLACES with the legendary Agnès Varda) situates his latest soci...