Think you know what really happens behind bars? From record-breaking jailbreaks and shocking prison experiments to brutal ...

There are primarily two kinds of movies about the prison system. One type is the entertaining breakout premise seen in classics like Escape from Alcatraz and modern action pictures like Escape Plan.

Fifty years ago this month I conducted a research experiment that could have been a blight to my career. Instead, what has become known as the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) drove me to extensively ...