On remand in HMP Bullingdon, I watched a lot of TV. All prisoners do – the product of enforced indolence. Unsurprisingly, ...

Movies like Shawshank Redemption, The Great Escape, and Escape From Alcatraz are some of the best prison escape films of all ...

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 ...

On the Friday, March 6, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: “The Alabama Solution” offers rare, unfiltered access inside Alabama’s prison system, exposing the stark human cost of mass incarceration.

This weekend, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and KPFT’s “The Prison Show” will present the Prison Reform Film Festival, a series of movies about prison-related subjects. One of the films, Sweethearts ...