solitary confinement

A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, ...

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his ...

Henri “Papillon” Charrière is convicted in Paris for a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony ...

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a ...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, ...

Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous ...

There are 100,000 US citizens in solitary confinement across the country, a staggering number prompting comment from both President Obama and the ...

A flawed attempt to map the mind of a brutal serial killer leads to a horrifying battle for survival in director Thomas Wright’s visceral ...