Incarceration Movies

A Light In Cañon City illuminates the lives of individuals who have traversed the challenging terrain of incarceration and emerged on the other side w...

Set in a speakeasy in Atlanta, “Twenty” is a feature documentary about fifteen young people making it through 2020. The film is an observational time...

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance polic...

In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento t...

Trevor McDonald goes to Rockville Correctional Facility in Indiana to speak with some of the women that live there.

Aundrey Burno, a black youth looking down the wrong end of a murder charge -- for which a conviction could result in a lifetime in prison -- appears t...

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris ha...

Low-level narcotics offenders too often cycle in and out of jail, re-offending soon after they hit the streets. District Attorney Kamala D. Harris has...

Juana, Mar, and Eduardo tell their stories of abuse.

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid instituti...

Portable Channel, a community documentary group in Rochester, New York, was one of the first small format video centers to have an ongoing relationshi...

Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers and forests on loop, prompting them to refl...

Two years after the riots and deaths at Attica, New York, a community day was organized at Greenhaven, a federal prison in Connecticut. The event was...

BEING MICHELLE follows the astounding journey of a deaf and disabled woman who survived incarceration under unimaginable circumstances by a system tha...