Ridley Scott's go-to production designer Arthur Max wants him to do a 'New York City-Based Gangster Movie' next.

The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...

Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to discuss the UK release of The Seed of the Sacred Fig, made in secret, and his battle with ...

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

Trump and his white-nationalist allies are pursuing a shock-and-awe strategy against immigrants—and many Democrats seem all too eager to join him.

One person died after a shooting in Brussels that was likely linked to clashes between rival drug gangs, the local prosecutor ...

Grey walls, grey furniture and grey jumpsuits affect the psychology of prisoners. Research suggests simple, colourful ...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made an unusual offer to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He proposed that the United ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would become a months-long hunger strike.

Luke Cage was convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. An experiment while in prison gave him the power he needed to prove his ...

President Trump aims to deport up to 30,000 migrant detainees to a holding facility there, despite the questionable legality of that move.

Making art served many purposes. Mansoor Adayfi, a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and author of Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost ...