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A Mexican-American Mafia kingpin is released from prison, falls in love for the first time, and grows introspective about his gangster lifestyle.

The difficulties of a career burglar to reinsert himself after being released on parole.

A prisoner gets a chance to take part in the Olympics.

Fed up with the inhumane prison living conditions, a general prison riot breaks out, leading to hostage-taking, a stand-off with the guards and eventual negotiations with the prison administration officials.

Set inside a single room in Folsom Prison, three men from the outside participate in a four-day group-therapy retreat with a group of incarcerated men for a real look at the challenges of rehabilitation.

At California's Folsom Prison, escape attempts and riots are on the rise due to the old-school sadistic style of management of a brutal warden.

After his death sentence is commuted to life in prison, John Resko (Ben Gazzara) is transferred from Sing-Sing to Dannemora Prison where, with the help of a humane prison guard, he becomes a rehabilitated man and a successful painter.

J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI go after notorious bank robber and kidnapper Alvin Karpis and his gang.

The untold story of 'bad-boy' Johnny Cash, his talented but troubled manager, Saul Holiff, and a son searching for his father in the shadow of a legend.

The band Los Tigres del Norte visit both the male and female inmates of Folsom Prison. Inmates share their stories and how the music of Los Tigres del Norte speaks to them.

A prison inmate comes up with a plan to break out in order to be near his wife--and also the $50,000 in stolen cash for which he was originally imprisoned.

Gannon is an imprisoned racketeer kingpin who tries to manipulate his young cell mate into staging a riot and prison break, but the cell mate tries to back out when he realizes other inmates may be killed in the process.

An ex-convict finds returns home to a small town and finds redemption for his crimes.

Cruel and Unusual investigates the historic change to California's Three Strikes Law, which was the harshest sentencing law in the United States. The film tells the personal stories of three individuals sentenced to life under the law for minor, non-violent crimes, including writing a bad check, shoplifting a VCR, and taking a slice of pizza.

Huell tours Folsom Prison, which for well over a century has housed some of California's toughest characters and gets a rare look inside this landmark prison. He visits Folsom's first death row, the chapel-which contains what has to be one of the most unusual paintings of "The Last Supper," the historic "China Hill," and the seldom-seen prison graveyard, final resting place for generations of prisoners.