Ghosts of Attica

'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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

The year’s most spectacular Documentary short films.