Criminal Injustice: Death and Politics at Attica

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotio...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S. forces at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Frequent perpetrator Tony ends up in the Pieter Baan Center after yet another violent robbery. For seven weeks, a procession of behavioral researchers...

Behind the scenes at one of the most unique and controversial prisons in the UK, home to some of Britain's worst female criminals

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the Pope...

The horrifying story of what went on inside General Pinochet's secret prisons.

This video, The Road to Mass Incarceration, by Greenhouse Media summarizes criminal justice policy decisions dating back to the 1960s. Although the ef...

19-year-old Mikko works as a summer guard in a remote Finnish prison. Spending three months in a closed facility with convicts challenges his views on...

For three months, the journalist Jesús Quintero visits more than thirty prisons and interviews more than a hundred prisoners in order to discover what...

Impressionistic glimpses of London life from early morning to rush hour.

The Big One is an investigative documentary from director Michael Moore who goes around the country asking why big American corporations produce their...

An intimate portrait of mothers and daughters and the effects of trauma, Jacinta follows a young woman in and out of prison as she attempts to break f...

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners rele...

A documentary on reformed ex-con Rick Maylender and his attempts to help troubled youths by taking them out of their environment and showing them how...