For more than three decades, the four men and their families had insisted they were innocent of one of Austin’s most gruesome and notorious crimes: the 1991 rape and ...

Frederick Wiseman, the celebrated director of “Titicut Follies” and dozens of other documentaries whose in-depth, unadorned movies comprised a unique and revelatory history of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — A groundbreaking documentary, conceived, filmed and produced entirely by inmates at the Utah State Prison, is giving the public an unprecedented look at life behind bars. The film ...

An Oscar-nominated movie about Alabama prisons is shining a spotlight on concerns surrounding Oklahoma prisons.

The Alabama prison system has moved three well-known inmate activists who supported a 2022 prison strike and were featured in ...

A 27-year-old Coastal State Prison corrections officer was arrested for allegedly giving inmates prohibited items. Michael Cole was arrested by the Georgia Department of Corrections’ Criminal ...

Three Alabama prison inmates featured in an Oscar-nominated documentary have filed a federal lawsuit alleging their abrupt transfer to isolated cells last month violated their First Amendment rights.

Frederick Wiseman, who has died aged 96, revolutionised the documentary film movement in the 1960s and 1970s, using lightweight equipment and high-speed film to explore aspects of reality hitherto ...

MACON COUNTY, Ga. — A Macon State Prison inmate was pronounced dead on Monday, Coroner Eddie Hosley confirmed. Hosley said that Eric Antwan Roberts was pronounced dead around 5:30 p.m. He did not say ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — A Hancock State Prison inmate died Sunday after a fight with his cellmate, according to Hancock County Coroner Dontrelle Andrews. Andrews said Stephen Wood, 55, was attacked by ...