Ned vivia uma vida feliz e descontraída a plantar vegetais orgânicos numa quinta com a sua namorada hippie e o seu cão chamado Willie Nelson, mas um incidente com marijuana no mercado leva-o à prisão. Quando sai da prisão ele vai viver com a sua irmã. Enquanto Ned continua feliz, a sua irmã é bastante infeliz depois de dar cabo da sua vida amorosa, profissional e de dona de casa. Ned vê estes problemas como faltas de comunicação… Ela vê-o como um idiota..
Libby Parsons, uma mulher convencida da morte do marido, descobre que foi este que encenou a própria morte e a envolveu no crime, acabando por ser condenada por assassínio. Ao sair da prisão em liberdade condicional, ela percorre toda a cidade para o encontrar. Mas entre ela e os seus objectivos está o agente que vigia a sua liberdade condicional Trevis Lehaman que não lhe perde o rasto.
This follow-up to the 1989 documentary ONE YEAR IN A LIFE OF CRIME revisits three of the original subjects in New Jersey during a five-year period in the 1990s. We share in their triumphs and setbacks as they navigate lives of poverty, drug abuse, AIDS, and petty crime.
The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When Miles Langford, the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education... in staying alive!
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
A murderer on parole victimizes a family against whom he holds a grudge.
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into doing a bank job.
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Parolee John Carver seeks the stolen money he has hidden, but so does his girlfriend, lawyer and cellmate. Tom and Chito are hired to get him across the border into Mexico and find themselves caught in the middle.
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her secure a job caring for his ailing mother.
Wild Bill Saunders recruits a team of paroled convicts to subdue a lawless gang.
Out after 46 years in prison, Anthony Blanks must now re-learn how to live a normal life. But with no surviving family, money or technical skills needed for modern-day living, he is struggling to re-build his life. So he is on a journey to find new family, apply for state benefits, and take technology literacy classes to get by.
An older convict is paroled and takes his wife from a nursing home to help him recover stolen money from a bank heist as a relentless prison guard is hot on his trail.
North Philadelphia, PA – Kev, El and Andy are three men united by one struggle: they are trying to defy gravity. As part of the 700,000 prisoners released into society every year, they find themselves faced with a chilling outlook: 67% of ex-offenders re-offend within three years. What explains this invisible force that keeps former inmates in a seemingly unending cycle of incarceration? Filmed on the street over the course of two years, Pull of Gravity is an intimate portrait of these three men that confronts head-on the gritty details of lives cut short by poverty and drugs, where dealing is seen as the only route to economic prosperity, where using offers an escape from powerlessness, and where prison is too often the next stop. The film’s unfiltered lense captures its subjects as they lay bare their stories, fears, and tentative dreams.