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TV Shows & Series: Best "release from prison" TV Shows/Series

A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as A Man Escaped, Cool Hand Luke, Midnight Express, Brubaker, Escape from Alcatraz, The Shawshank Redemption, and Kiss of the Spider Woman to actioners like Lock Up and Undisputed, and even comedies satirizing the genre like Stir Crazy, Life, and Let's Go to Prison. Prison films have been asserted to be "guilty of oversimplifying complex issues, the end result of which is the proliferation of stereotypes". For example, they are said to perpetuate "a common misperception that most correctional officers are abusive", and that prisoners are "violent and beyond redemption". ()

Related keywords: "imprisonment" | "prison" | "prison escape" | "prisoner" | "prisoners of war"

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Sprung(2022-)

30min per episode | Comedy
3.9/5 (with 15 votes)

A convicted criminal is determined to turn his life around after serving more than two decades in prison. When he is released unexpectedly from prison due to the pandemic with no place to live and the world on lockdown, Jack shelters-in-place with an unlikely group of former inmates, who band together and use their criminal expertise for good.

Unforgiven(2009)

1h per episode | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Upon release from jail, a woman who was found guilty of murdering two police officers when she was a teenager who is determined to see her sister who was adopted.

Directed by David Evans

Free Meek(2019)

33min per episode | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

This intimate documentary series chronicles Meek Mill's transformation from chart-topping rapper to galvanizing face of criminal justice reform. As Meek, his family and his legal team fight for his freedom, cameras capture the birth of the #FREEMEEK movement and re-investigate a case filled with allegations of dirty cops and systemic corruption in a broken judicial system.

With Meek Mill

Amigo's(2017)

45min per episode | Drama, Crime
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Five guys spent their time in prison. Some of them even for murder. Now they want to run a restaurant called Amigo's. But not everything goes how it was supposed to go.

Parole(2023-)

Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

As futures hang in the balance, what would you decide? An eye-opening look at Britain's parole boards, making complex, life-changing decisions for prisoners - and their victims.

Piger i Vestre Fængsel(1996)

2h 55min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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