Iwahig, aux Philippines, fondée par l’administration coloniale américaine en 1904 est une prison à ciel ouvert de 38 000 hectares de jungle et de côtes. Les prisonniers de longue peine, après des mois de mise à l’épreuve, deviennent agriculteurs, pêcheurs ou surveillants : la prison est autosuffisante et autogérée. Les familles de détenus à perpétuité s’organisent. Alejandro va bientôt sortir. Sa place de "maire" des 2 300 prisonniers en fait un guide d’expérience auprès de quelques co-détenus comme Toting le pêcheur ou Rodrigo, qui se révolte contre le surveillant violent dont il est le domestique. Au tribunal de la prison, Alejandro est l’avocat des détenus, car il connaît toutes les histoires de la prison. Quand enfin il sort, Alejandro recommence à zéro, dans le sentiment d’une dignité et de droits reconquis.

A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in friendship. His wrongful arrest tests his resilience. A story of survival and redemption.

Confined to a cold cell for 41 nights, a doctor's dreams of failures collide with his memories of success.

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

The youngsters housed in the "Almafuerte" Maximum Security Juvenile Institute have their first approach to audiovisual recording. A film and documentary video workshop serves as an excuse for them to make a short film inside the prison. The camera is a rabid toy that generates fascination in them and rescues a sheltered, innocent smile that seemed forgotten under the shadows. While inside libertarian cries bounce against the walls, outside sounds fanfares of an iron fist.

Tom entre dans un hôpital, demande à voir son père mais les visites sont interdites pour ce détenu. Un policier se trouve devant la porte de la chambre, Tom doit trouver le moyen d’y pénétrer...

Sonny and Dub once shared a cell. Now Sonny is a free man, but Dub is on death row and sentenced to be executed in a matter of days. As Sonny comes to visit Dub one last time, Dub has one last dying request for Sonny.

Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.

A convicted felon builds a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.

A documentary about Goran Ivandic 'Ipe', the drummer of most popular Yugoslav rock band of all time, Sarajevo-based "Bijelo dugme" (White Button). Ivandic's fatal jump from the balcony of hotel Metropol in Belgrade in 1994 sparked much controversy around his fate.

North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Filmed on the street over the course of two years, Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head-on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film’s unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.

"A School Behind Bars" centers around Asahi Junior High School, which is located within Nagano Matsumoto Boy's prison in Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture - the only public school in Japan that is located inside a prison. The school's students are all prisoners ranging in age from 20-70. The students are carefully selected after taking an entrance exam and being selected by the school's admission board.

As a young filmmaker who suffers from OCD, Lucas struggles with finishing his synopsis for a film that he had always dreamt of making. Despite his ambitions, Lucas can't seem to gather his thoughts and he worries that his work will not be the perfection that he undoubtedly desires. With overwhelming emotions and a lack of self-confidence, Lucas finds himself trapped in his own mind where he desires everything to go as planned but is instead faced with his fears and an altered reality that his mind presents to him.

A prisoner sentenced to 622 years in prison is imprisoned in a Greek prison in which the laws of the Junta are still in force. Isovitis (Lifer) and all prisoners are supported by a mouse living in prison, Montechristo, behaving very arrogantly.

Le documentaire original de 1969 produit par Granada TV au Royaume-Uni. chronicles Concert historique de Cash à la prison de haute sécurité. Comprend des images du concert qui est devenu le LP le plus vendu de 1969 et présente une interprétation complète du hit numéro 1 "A Boy Named Sue". Contient également des entrevues individuelles avec plusieurs gardiens de prison et détenus, parlant de leur temps et de leur expérience derrière les barreaux.

Maryam Henderson-Uloho spent thirteen years in prison in Louisiana, seven in solitary confinement. After her release she struggled to find housing or employment. She began selling secondhand goods out of a suitcase on a street corner in New Orleans. In just three years, she grew her business to a brick-and-mortar thrift store—one that also provides housing and employment for other formerly-incarcerated women. She calls those women—and her store—Sister Hearts.

Bien qu'il soit en isolement carcéral depuis 25 ans, Kenneth Reams continue de se battre pour clamer son innocence. Bien qu'il soit incarcéré, Kenneth est devenu un artiste à part entière et le fondateur d'une organisation à but non lucratif.

When Canada's Government takes the decision to transform the correctional system to one that puts punishment first, the country's rehabilitative prison farms are one of the first causalities. A strong opposition forms towards the farm closures and for two days in late summer of 2010, hundreds of angry protesters stand in front of Frontenac Prison Farm in the heart of Kingston, Ontario, ready to block cattle trucks brought in to remove the hundred-year-old prize dairy heard.

Trois garçons, ils ont tous commis un meurtre. Après avoir découvert leurs visages obsédants et leurs histoires troublantes dans un documentaire carcéral interdit de 1984, le cinéaste part à leur recherche et découvre des secrets indicibles et une Hongrie qu'il n'a jamais connue.