Anh chàng Stan giàu có bị kết án 3 năm tù vì tội lừa đảo trong việc môi giới nhà đất. Với 6 tháng còn lại trước khi lĩnh án, Stan tìm đủ mọi cách để có thể sống sót trong tù với những tên tù nhân to con và dã man. Và anh gặp được Master, một cao thủ võ lâm, người đồng ý huấn luyện với Stan trở thành đại ca trong tù. Bằng những phương pháp quái gở, kinh dị Master tin rằng Stan sẽ trở nên khỏe mạnh và có võ nghệ cao cường. Ngày kinh hoàng cũng đến, Stan bỏ lại sau lưng cô vợ xinh đẹp, bốc lửa, căn biệt thự cùng chiếc xe hơi đắt tiền để lên đường đi tù. Liệu anh chàng nhỏ bé, láu cá Stan có chống trọi được với những tên tội phạm dã man và thiếu thốn tình cảm trong tù.
A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a corrupt warden, where she is forced to suffer various indignities.
A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
Tomasz Komenda was 23 years old when his normal life was brutally interrupted. Overnight he was arrested, thrown into prison and charged with murder. Subsequent expert opinions confirmed his participation in the crime, and any evidence was against him. For nearly two decades in prison, he was beaten, intimidated, humiliated and on his own. Finally, after 18 years of imprisonment, prosecutors and a policeman appeared on his way, who decided to discover the truth behind the mysterious case of the detainee.
Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.