Detention, premiering in Cannes' ACID, observes students in a training program for prison guards.
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The 49th Year begins with promise, but ultimately unfolds as an inert conceptual portrait of a Japanese political prisoner that juxtaposes personal letters with atmospheric exteriors
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Several women who were former inmates at Holloway return to the prison that housed them and heal their collective trauma.
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Filmmaker Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg befriends Ruth, a Greelandic woman serving an indeterminate prison sentence, in Walls – Akinni Inuk.
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Filmmaker Brett Story on her documentaries Union, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Hottest August, Land of Destiny, and what inspires her.
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The Freedom of Fierro follows César Fierro's fight for freedom as it undergoes a bittersweet breakthrough.
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An interview with Rebel Nun star Sister Helen Prejean and director Dominic Sivyer about a decades' long quest to abolish the death penalty.
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An interview with Daughters directors Natalie Rae and Angela Patton about bringing the Date with Dad program to screen in their moving film.
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A hunger strike at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison gives America's enthusiasm for punitive incarceration a hard look.
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Sundance Audience Award winner Daughters observes daughters of incarcerated individuals as they get ready to dance with their fathers.
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