“We have the largest prison population on the planet and it’s not because Americans are uniquely evil,” writer and director Matthew Cooke tells THR. By Ciara McVey You’re more likely to go to prison ...

Angelo Pisano, an entrepreneur, artist, prison veteran, consultant to soon-to-be inmates, youth activist, devoted writer and author, has completed his first book "Prison Guide: Survival Secrets ...

Matthew Cooke follows up his doc about the drug war with 'Survivors Guide to Prison,' a look at the justice system. By THR Staff Matthew Cooke, who took a cheeky but not unserious look at the War on ...

The messy but compelling activist doc Survivors Guide to Prison often suggests a carelessly assembled trio of short films that all happen to be about America’s corrupt and dehumanizing penal system.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Visit a Morgan County prison for an experience that is almost too real. The Historic Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary became operating as a prison and housed some of the ...