Few genres tap into society’s worst fears and most illicit curiosities more than the prison film. Jails, felons, and the ...

I was once told that one of the loneliest places in the world is the waiting room in a women’s prison. For a few hours on Saturday, March 28, the large crowd that filed into the Central California ...

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Before we begin with our last segment, we want to note it includes a discussion of sexual assault. Fifty years ago, August 15, ...

Correction: Footage of the entrance to Tehran's Evin prison was incorrectly dated in this story. The video was filmed in 2022. We regret the error. Thousands of ...

Taiwanese prison drama “Sunshine Women’s Choir” has become the highest-grossing local film in Taiwan‘s box-office history, surpassing NT$545 million ($17.3 million) on Feb. 14 and dethroning the ...

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for improperly wearing her hijab. Many spent time at the notorious Evin prison ...