HMP Styal: The Mother of All Prisons

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Behind the walls of the Compound, LA’s most violent juvenile offenders await their trials. To their advocates, they’re kids. To the...

Forty years after the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War, the dead remain buried along with the truth. Until now....

Documentary about the magnitude and severity of domestic violence. This film features four women imprisoned for killing their batterers and their...

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these...

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an...

In this documentary we meet five children in Sweden and see what happened in their lives. Robin was nine years old, but he already knew what a prison...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

With unprecedented access, this documentary looks into the hidden world of one of Russia's most impenetrable and remote institutions - a maximum...