After the release of the 'Alabama solution' documentary, advocates are coordinating a strike from within the state prisons.

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at ...

Former WBRC anchor Beth Shelburne worked as a producer on a new HBO documentary examining the serious problems within Alabama ...

A jury of five incarcerated men selected the film “Songs From the Hole,” directed by Contessa Gayles, as winner of the top award at the first-ever film festival to be held at Sing Sing prison in ...

Documentaries serve as a flashlight in a dark room – casting light on subjects, people, things, that you may not be privy to. And when a documentary is done with journalistic integrity, it can be as ...

“Daughters” is not your standard prison documentary. An intimate and deeply moving look at the program Date With Dad, which since 2008 has united incarcerated fathers with their daughters for a ...

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 ...

Sing Sing garnered much acclaim (and should have gotten more Oscar nominations) for how it explores prisoners having their humanity be more deeply recognized through practicing an art form. Sing Sing ...

An Alabama pastor wants church goers to become a bit uncomfortable in their seats. Their discomfort is a precursor to action, Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow said. Glasgow, a Dothan-based pastor and activist ...

Samual N. Brown, Allen Burnett, Charlie Praphatananda and Dara Yin have stories to tell. Their time in prison was shrouded by their reality. Three of the four were charged with murder and sentenced to ...

An inmate who was featured in the Netflix series Unlocked: A Jail Experiment has died in prison, one month before his scheduled release date. John McAllister, also known by his nickname “Eastside”, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an ...