屎蛋（勞勃·許奈德飾）是個專業的詐欺師，在一場官司中被控訴詐欺，而必須入獄服刑。在入獄之前屎蛋當心在獄中會慘遭不人道的性侵害，為了以求自保，在服刑前向武術大師馬斯特（大衛·卡拉定飾）拜師學藝，在入獄服刑前短短的幾個月，馬斯特果然讓屎蛋脫胎換骨變成格鬥高手。入獄之後果然像是屎蛋所擔心的惡劣情況，但是很快的屎蛋就瓦解裡面的勢力，並且建立了新秩序，不過在獄中期間屎蛋擔心馬斯特與自己的妻子敏蒂（珍妮佛·莫瑞森飾）暗通款曲，另一方面發現陷害他入獄的人是該所監獄的典獄長，因為他想要炒作監獄的地皮，來獲取大量財富，卻置犯人生死不顧，因此屎蛋反而在犯人這一方，最終打倒典獄長，並且化解外遇誤會與妻子有圓滿結局。
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.
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.
An abandoned child steals to survive and has problems when he decides to steal from the priest who helps him.
A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
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 story of Tomasz Komenda - a man, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, for a crime he did not commit.
Carlito 'Kado' is sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, leaving his pregnant girlfriend to fend for herself in the real world.