Max B Returns With First Mixtape Since Prison Release, ‘Public Domain 7: The Purge’

Public Domain 7: The Purge arrives with appearances from A$AP Rocky, Kehlani, French Montana, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Lola Brooke, Chinx, and more. It marks his first mixtape in nine years and his ...
Opinion

Prison methods are as bad as you’ve heard, and spilling onto the streets

Based on a six-year investigation and contraband cellphone footage that courageous incarcerated men supplied from inside one of America’s most dangerous and dysfunctional prison systems, filmmakers ...
Opinion

Robe Imbriano on highlighting injustice at troubling Texas jail & bail reform awareness in animated musical documentary short 'Criminal'

If you're too poor to afford a good lawyer in Houston's Harris County Jail in Texas, the odds are sorely stacked against you. In misdemeanor cases, Harris County inmates plead guilty 84% of the time ...
Variety

Jafar Panahi on His Iran Prison Sentence: ‘I Know My Films Don’t Please the Government’ but ‘I Will Go Back’

Cannes winner Jafar Panahi addressed his recent Iran prison sentence while speaking at the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco, saying he plans to return to his country as soon as he finishes his Oscar ...
PBS

New film ‘That Night’ tells story of woman who survived fire at infamous Iranian prison

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for improperly wearing her hijab. Many spent time at the notorious Evin prison ...
Digital Journal

Prison film fest brings Hollywood and healing to US jailhouse

Inmates and guests watch a screening during the San Quentin Film Festival at the infamous California prison - Copyright POOL/AFP/File Eliot BLONDET Inmates and guests ...
Yahoo

Prison film fest brings Hollywood and healing to US jailhouse

Held inside a notorious prison among some of California's most dangerous felons, the San Quentin Film Festival is not your typical Hollywood affair. Red-carpet interviews take place just yards (meters ...
Rolling Stone

Sean Combs’ Projected Prison Release Date Revealed

Sean Combs’ projected prison release date has been calculated, offering the first official prediction of when the music mogul convicted on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution will ...
Barron's

Prison Film Festival Brings Hollywood And Healing To US Jailhouse

Held inside a notorious prison among some of California's most violent felons, the San Quentin Film Festival is not your typical Hollywood affair. The festival, launched last year, offers inmates a ...
The Atlantic

What an Iranian Filmmaker Learned In Prison

For more than a decade, after the government of Iran deemed his work “propaganda against the system,” the filmmaker Jafar Panahi was banned from making films or leaving the country. He spent some of ...
Deadline.com

Elgin James’ ‘Prison Break’ Ordered To Series At Hulu

The world of Prison Break is expanding as Hulu has ordered Elgin James’ pilot to series. In the new Prison Break, a soldier-turned-corrections officer takes a job at one of the deadliest prisons in ...