Movies and TvShows featuring "penal-system" theme.

Murder in the First follows the story of a prisoner named Henri Young, who is serving his sentence in Alcatraz. Young becomes a key witness in a case against the prison system and his lawyer fights to bring justice to the institutional brutality and human cruelty within the American prison system.

Brubaker is a drama crime movie released in 1980. It is based on the true story of Henry Brubaker, a prison warden who goes undercover in a prison in Arkansas to expose corruption and improve the conditions for prisoners.

A US prison decides to try out the methods of the Scandinavian prison system. But there are challenges ahead. Can the Americans succeed in focusing on rehabilitating prisoners instead of punishing them and changing staff attitudes, while overcoming the covid-19 pandemic?

An aging assassin hides in a facility for abandoned senior citizens to protect a daughter he left years ago.

This film from Bill Moyers is the first documentary to focus exclusively on people formerly detained in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island Jail. They tell their compelling stories direct to the camera, revealing the violent arc of the Rikers experience – from the trauma of entry to extortion and control by inmates, to oppressive corrections officers, violence and solitary confinement.