Danny Trejo can tell you a thing or two about surviving prison. He was an inmate at California’s infamous San Quentin Prison long before he became one of Hollywood’s most badass, and beloved, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

He works in mysterious ways.

During a support group at San Quentin State Prison in 2019, Rev. Susan Shannon invited more than 30 men into a circle. For weeks, the group had been talking about grief and loss. On this day, Shannon ...

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.