In Prison Cell 211, a human rights lawyer finds himself stuck behind the walls when a deadly riot erupts in the Ciudad Juárez prison where he was visiting a client. Not great! The six-episode ...

Last month, Netflix debuted “Prison Cell 211," an action-thriller series based on the novel by author Francisco Pérez Gandul. But this wasn’t the first time the book had been adapted.

DAMASCUS, Syria — Cockroaches crawled out of the walls near a dirty, stained sink in the Syrian prison cell where an ex-prisoner told NBC News that American journalist Austin Tice was once held.