Behind Bars

The war on drugs has been going on for more than three decades. Today, nearly 500,000 Americans are imprisoned on drug charges. In 1980 the number...

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances...

The Prison Project is a short black-and-white documentary about the work of the Belgian photographer Sébastien van Malleghem in various...

Turn off the alarms and throw away the keys as these two comics set the inmates of Arizona State Prison rolling with laughter.

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who...

Nearly 10,000 children in Britain visit a parent in prison every week, BAFTA-nominated filmmaker Catey Sexton gives a humane and sensitive insight...

On June 3, 1973, a man was murdered in a busy intersection of San Francisco’s Chinatown as part of an ongoing gang war. Chol Soo Lee, a...

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

A film narrated by a prison interview with long-jailed black radical Ojore Lutalo. Ojore touches on many issues, from what prisons are, to why he is...

An experimental intake of Ojore Nuru Lutalo as he recounts the 22 years he spent in political isolation, and the flourishing comradery he built with...

Five transgender women share their prison experiences. Interviews with attorneys, doctors, and other experts are also included.