Summer Guard

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...

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...

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...

At their university in Eastern Europe, they are future bankers, journalists and politicians. In America, they are just “the help.” From...

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

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

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

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

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

In 2018, the Nicaraguan police brutally repressed anti-government protests organised by high school students. K., a 17-year-old girl who was...

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or...

In 1981, iconic Turkish film director escapes jail to France, his last work re-creating with other exiles the prison lives they left behind.

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

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...

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

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...

The final months of pregnancy and the first ones after the birth of a baby are unique experiences in a woman's life. And when this daily life is...

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