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News and Awards March 31, 2020
“Tutwiler” Selected for Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
A new documentary from The Marshall Project and Frontline (PBS) offers a rare look at the lives of expectant mothers inside a notorious women’s prison.
By The Marshall Project
Rudy Valdez, the director of “The Sentence.”
Commentary October 11, 2018
The Terrible Cost of The Sentence
Powerful HBO documentary chronicles family trauma caused by mandatory minimums.
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Clayton “Mr. C” Guyton holding a meeting in East Baltimore’s Rose Street community in a scene from Marilyn Ness’s documentary, “Charm City.”
The Frame April 25, 2018
Documenting the Hard Truths of Prison and Policing
At Tribeca Film Festival, new documentaries give voice to the incarcerated and communities struggling with crime.
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Chris Renton, an outside volunteer, is surrounded with support from inmates and other visitors during a group therapy session at Folsom State Prison in California.
The Frame October 25, 2017
Intense and Raw, a Spotlight on Therapy at New Folsom Prison
In a new documentary, ‘The Work,’ inmates confront their fears in a quest for empathy.
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An inmate is led to recreational cages in Kristi Jacobson’s “Solitary: Inside Red Onion State Prison.”
News February 2, 2017
Watch: A New Documentary’s Rare Access Inside Solitary
A filmmaker spends a year inside a Virginia supermax facility.
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Robert Durst, center, in a scene from the HBO series “The Jinx.”
News March 17, 2015
Five Lessons from “The Jinx”
What the HBO documentary series shows us about real-world law enforcement.
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