Amid renewed debate over the controversial practice, an archival FRONTLINE documentary offers a visceral portrait of life in solitary at one maximum-security prison. A composite image with stills from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Independent filmmaker Jennifer McShane came to Missouri to make her second documentary about prison life, focusing on an unusual ...

The Prison Show documentary will be screened June 2 at the DeLUXE Theater in Houston. Credit: Screenshot “You remember the pain. You remember solitary confinement. You remember picking cotton in ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A groundbreaking documentary, conceived, filmed and produced entirely by inmates at the Utah State Prison, is giving the public an unprecedented look at life behind bars. The film ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Devonte Hoy as James "JJ’88" Jacobs - Credit: Netflix Music, more than a product or anything else, is a sacred act. That’s the ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A new HBO documentary is bringing national attention to the problems behind Alabama’s prison walls, and it was topic of discussion in the state legislature’s joint prison ...

FRONTLINE documentaries have examined incarceration in the U.S., including the debate over prison reform, the sentencing of juvenile offenders, the use of solitary confinement, the treatment of ...

An Oscar-nominated documentary exposing violence inside prison walls is coming to Oklahoma City. Criminal justice reform advocates want to bring attention to Oklahoma’s prison system by showing the ...

Alabama is headed into an unusual week where Hollywood buzz, unlikely political alliances, and a searing prison documentary are converging to force new scrutiny of the state’s correctional system. On ...

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary about the troubled system to isolated cells ...

The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and the support of international doc branch voters. This year’s crop of top ...