These prison movies are captivating. Get it? Some of the best movies are actually movies about life on the outside, where the prison represents the mental traps imposed on us by society, or our own ...

The prison movie genre brings life’s most fundamental struggles to the fore, as characters are forced to confront isolation, subjugation, and the inhumanity of having their agency stripped away. From ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...

Prison escape stories have long seemed to capture our imagination because they speak to our love of antiheroes and underdogs, ...

This is part of Time, Online, a Future Tense series on how technology is changing prison. In 2021, while watching a Super Bowl commercial on a TV bolted to the wall of a cell block, I saw something I ...

Hundreds of thousands of prisoners are getting access to tablets offering them access to streaming services for movies and music and to video games. GTL Prisoners are streaming Hollywood hits, ...

Prison movies are perhaps the most captivating of all movies, as the following films illustrate. From grim portrayals of life behind bars to escape thrillers to World War II team-ups to earnest ...