Loosely based on the trial of Henri Young (a case that would change how prisoners on the island were treated), the film’s ...

Penitentiary is a 1979 American blaxploitation drama film written, produced, and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, and starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone, a man who deals with the ...

According to historical accounts, out of the 36 Alcatraz inmates who tried to flee before the prison was closed in March 1963 ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations.

SEVEN. MADISON. THANK YOU. MORE BREAKING NEWS NEBRASKA FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE A GRASS FIRE NEAR THE STATE PENITENTIARY. CORRECTIONS SAYS IT STARTED ABOUT 1:00 TODAY WHEN A STATE VEHICLE CAUGHT FIRE.

This is a story about seven female prisoners each with different backgrounds, living within the one prison. At the beginning of the story, a new inmate Ding Qing Er arrives with tears streaming ...

Ben Foster, who was nominated for an Emmy for The Survivor a few years back, is headed back to the big screen with an ...

WALLA WALLA — It’s 6:40 a.m. at the Washington State Penitentiary. Men are starting to wake up. Certain sounds come alive. “Man, you hear them toilets flushing up there?” Demar Nelson asks ...

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A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing ...