Sing Sing, a maximum security prison in New York, hosted its first film festival. With the help of the Marshall Project, a jury of incarcerated men weighed the merits of documentaries. Sing Sing is a ...

Staff Writer Crime has always been a subject of fascination. In colonial New England, pamphlets on murders were handed out, featuring recaps of crimes and trials, plus any last words criminals uttered ...

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 ...

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 ...

A documentary chronicling the abuses from within Alabama’s prison system, with the help of inmate activists, is up for an Academy Award.

An Oscar-nominated documentary exposing violence inside prison walls is coming to Oklahoma City. Criminal justice reform advocates want to bring attention to Oklahoma’s prison system by showing the ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - For 34 years, Cliff Middleton has fought to free his father from prison, now a documentary is set to follow his journey. SilverCreek Entertainment says it has partnered with ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Alabama’s prison system is the subject of a new HBO documentary set to debut on Friday. The documentary, called “The Alabama Solution,” was directed and produced by ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Frederick Wiseman: he favoured a cinéma vérite style and took care not to impose his own viewpoint on his material - J ...

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 ...