In the United States, the agencies that govern prisons are often called 'Department of Corrections.' And yet, their focus is on containing and controlling inmates. Dan Pacholke, Deputy Secretary for the Washington State Department of...

Jeff Smith spent a year in prison. But what he discovered inside wasn't what he expected -- he saw in his fellow inmates boundless ingenuity and business savvy. He asks: Why don't we tap this entrepreneurial potential to help...

Famed for enormous black-and-white portraits that are pasted on surfaces ranging from the Louvre to the US-Mexico border wall, multimedia artist JR continues to tackle ambitious projects. In this powerfully moving talk, he shares how he...

In 1991, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was, he says, "a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol." Jailed for second degree murder, that could very well have been the end of the story. But it wasn't. Instead,...

Nalini Nadkarni challenges our perspective on trees and prisons -- she says both can be more dynamic than we think. Through a partnership with the state of Washington, she brings science classes and conservation programs to inmates, with...

Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In this powerful short talk, he tells the story of an encounter with right and wrong that...

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights...

The Internet has a lot to say about how color affects our mood and behavior, but it's not as cut and dry as it may sound.

When he was a child, George Takei and his family were forced into an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, as a "security" measure during World War II. 70 years later, Takei looks back at how the camp shaped his surprising, personal...

In mythological ancient Greece, Icarus flew above Crete on wings made from wax and feathers, defying the laws of man and nature. To witnesses on the ground, he looked like a god, and he felt like one too. But, in his society, the line...

Daniel Reisel studies the brains of criminal psychopaths (and mice). And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn't we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If...

The starving orphan seeking a second helping of gruel. The spinster wasting away in her tattered wedding dress. The stone-hearted miser plagued by the ghost of Christmas past. More than a century after his death, these remain...

On September 9th 1971, a spontaneous uprising began in a New York State prison. A group of prisoners overpowered guards, broke windows, started fires, and captured supplies, sparking the Attica Rebellion. Soon, over 1,200 prisoners had...

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other grown men for 23 and a half hours a day. In a moving talk, he tells the story of how he was freed -- and his current mission with the...

Hundreds of mobile phones and SIM cards found inside UK prison destroyedCredit: Greater Manchester Police

In this video we hear about the character of William the Conqueror, as described in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

This video outlines Zimbardo's most famous experiment - the Stanford Prison Experiment - which has to be called off within a week because it proved to be too dangerous to continue.

Police release CCTV footage of asylum seeker who was mistakenly released from prisonCredit: PA, Metropolitan Police

Sarkozy embraces wife outside their Paris home as he leaves to start five-year prison sentenceCredit: AP

A look at marijuana laws across the United States.

Sometimes your greatest weakness can also be your greatest strength. Stories That Inspire host, Francesco Clark can attest to this when a swimming accident left him a quadriplegic. Instead of giving-up, he fought to survive. Now, an...

Many women who have faced adversities in life may have trouble 'starting over.' If a woman has either spent time in jail, battled homelessness and/or addiction it can be hard to find work when they are rebuilding their lives....

Many women who have faced adversities in life may have trouble 'starting over.' If a woman has either spent time in jail, battled homelessness and/or addiction it can be hard to find work when they are rebuilding their lives....

Howcast - Learn how to take a shower during basic training in this US army basic training video from Howcast with Sergeant Michael Volkin.