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 movies are essentially a whole genre at this point, since so many films take place either wholly or entirely within prisons, and focus on things like survival and/or escape. It’s not ...

For some Americans, the 1990s marked a time of peace and prosperity. For others, it was a time of exacerbated inequality and violence. That duality helps explain the explosion of crime movies during ...