It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

Después de cometer un atraco en el que su marido resulta muerto, Marie Ellen (Eleanor Parker), una joven de clase media, ingresa en la prisión del Estado. Tras ser sometida a un reconocimiento médico, se entera de que está embarazada. Tras dos semanas de depresión en la sala médica de aislamiento, Marie tiene una entrevista con Ruth Benton (Agnes Moorehead), una superintendente amable y humana que lucha contra los viejos métodos penales.

A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.

A riot in a state prison is staged to cover up an escape attempt, during which many inmates and guards are killed. Shot on location at Arizona State Prison.

A veteran policeman named Fernando feels a lot of hatred against Ángel because the boy ran him over with a car leaving him lame. Now Fernando accuses the young crook of having participated in a robbery at a gas station in which a murder has occurred. Helped by his friends, Ángel rebuilds the facts that serve him as an alibi, but while he is in pre-trial detention in La Modelo prison (Barcelona) a terrible mutiny will take place.

Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days and resulted in the greatest casualty toll between Americans since the Civil War.

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.

Dorival, a man in jail, has only one wish: to take a bath. To achieve his objective, he defies the private, the corporal, the sargeant and, finally, the lieutenant in charge of the prison.

La confesión forzada de un hombre sobre un atentado del I.R.A. que no cometió también resulta en el encarcelamiento de su padre. Un abogado inglés lucha para liberarlos.

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.

Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by other "lifer" inmates who help her out when Aggie finds herself marked for murder by an unknown source who thinks she knows more about the murder than she does.

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

Documentary about Attica prison riot and lawsuits to get compensation for the victims of these events.

Kyle LeBlanc (Van Damme) es un estadounidense que trabaja en Rusia. Cuando escucha a su esposa ser atacada por teléfono, Kyle corre a casa para encontrar que ya es demasiado tarde. El hombre que mató a su esposa no es encontrado culpable por la falta de pruebas y soborno al juez. Así que Kyle toma la ley en sus propias manos, y mata al hombre para vengar la muerte de su esposa. Él es condenado a cadena perpetua sin posibilidad de libertad condicional. La prisión rusa a la que es enviado es bastante violenta, y el director se divierte organizando violentas peleas mano a mano donde se llena los bolsillos con dinero de apuestas. Kyle comienza a ceder a la presión y a perder la cordura, por lo que se ve obligado a entrar a estas luchas. La muerte de su amigo de prisión, lo hace pensar en que es por lo que está luchando. Con eso, Kyle sabe que ahora debe librar otra batalla: la lucha por la paz interior. Es la única manera que puede convertirse en el hombre que una vez fue

Imagine a prison with some ten thousand prisoners, many of them dangerous and, to control them, only a few unarmed employees. Small in number, these employees work in shifts. They are almost prisoners themselves, in a routine of tension, but also of humor and emotion. This prison was all too real. While it was in existence, the Carandiru was the largest prison in Latin America, administered by a reduced number of employees. The documentary shows, from the point of view of these few employees, holding the keys, how the prison operated: the delicate balance in the relationship with the prisoners, affinity among employees, moments of tension and, even, of happiness. These are stories told by former employees, among them, Dr. Dráuzio Varella, author of the book Estação Carandiru. These are the secrets of a place that no longer exists.

A documentary chronicle of the prisoners’ takeover of the Garcia Moreno Penitentiary in Quito, Ecuador. The prisoners find they suddenly have a voice after they take 360 people hostage, and a pattern of abuse and corruption by the guards toward the prisoners becomes clear after lengthy negotiations.

Un encantador hombre de familia con un prometedor futuro, Wade Porter de repente lo pierde todo cuando accidentalmente mata a un ladrón que se coló en su casa. Detenido por homicidio involuntario, Wade es condenado a pasar tres años en un centro penitenciario de máxima seguridad en el que las reglas de la sociedad no se aplican. Obligado a compartir celda con un infame asesino y sufriendo las brutales palizas orquestadas por el sádico jefe de los guardias de la prisión, Wade pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en juego y de que si quiere sobrevivir tendrá que convertirse en el recluso más duro. Porque lo que no te mata te hace más fuerte. Y en una prisión estatal, sólo los más fuertes sobreviven.