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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taiwanese prison drama “Sunshine Women’s Choir” has become the highest-grossing local film in Taiwan’s box-office history, ...

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 ...

The women — Trinity Copeland and Assia Serrano – were both incarcerated in New York state for more than 20 years between them for crimes indelibly linked to abuse they had suffered; in Trinity’s case ...

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 ...

At the Sing Sing maximum security prison, about 40 miles north of New York City, the campus chapel was bustling with activity on a recent Thursday. Guests and participants of the first-ever Sing Sing ...

The Bay Area’s newest film festival has a curious dress code. “No blue, green, orange, gray or all-white clothing,” reads an email sent to attendees by an event organizer. White is allowed if combined ...

This stirringly atypical addition to the prison genre is largely about the power of art to change lives, in this case by introducing creativity, honest emotion, even hope into the lives of prison ...

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 ...