Opening Shot: Scenes of life inside Juarez’s Cereso No. 38 Prison. The sound of cell doors slamming, and a prison official on the loudspeaker: “Attention, inmates: visits will start soon.” The Gist: ...

It was the Fourth of July, and I was in my Sing Sing cell, sweating in the heat, perched on the edge of my bunk with my feet dunked in a bucket of cold sink water. What really had me burning, though, ...

Netflix subscribers may have already binge-watched the exciting new foreign-language thriller series Prison Cell 211 following its premiere earlier this month. The Spanish mini-series centers on a ...

If you’re serving hard time inside a California prison, you’ll often find yourself stuck in a cramped cell with a complete stranger. You hang a bedsheet to manufacture the semblance of privacy between ...

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...