Två av action genrens största, Sylvester Stallone och Wesley Snipes ger sig på varandra i denna cyberfuturistiska hit. Året är 2032 och brottsbekämpningen har varit så effektiv att polisen inte längre har så mycket att göra, inte ens parkerings böter behöver dom skriva ut. Men så plötsligt tinar ärkeskurken Simon Phoenix (Snipes) upp, efter att ha varit nerfrusen i "CyroPrison" i 35 år. Han vaknar upp till en värld som inte längre känner till vad våld och brott egentligen är, en värld redo att plockas. Polisen står handfallna, tills det att dom tinar upp den våldsamme skurkens ärkerival Sgt. John Spartan, en polis från 1990 talet isom också han blivit nedfrusen i "CyroPrison" som straff efter sitt förra möte med Phoenix. Sandra Bullock spelar även hon en lagens väktare i denna explosiva blandning av action och humor.
Säkerhetsexperten Ray Breslin är tillbaka för att rentvå sitt namn och hjälpa andra som blivit felaktigt fängslade i säkerhetsfängelset Hades.
I väntan på rättegången där han står åtalad för mordförsök på sin fru blir Claude Gaspard förflyttad från sin gamla fängelsecell till en ny. Där visar det sig att hans nya cellkamrater är mitt uppe i planeringen av ett flyktförsök.
Berättelse om internen Robert Stroud som under sina år i fängelset blev en framstående fågelexpert...
Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pitman, Jr. is a schemer, a charmer, and quite popular among his fellow convicts — especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pitman. Each man will have the tables turned on him.
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
Den vänlige nyanställde mannen på universitetet visar sig vara allt annat än vanlig när en gammal fiende dyker upp och avslöjar hans komplicerade och våldsamma förflutna.
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes the prison warden and offers the beleaguered Robert a job as his chauffeur. Robert cleans up his act, but, on the eve of his pardon, his cellmate drags him back into the world of violence, and he faces a difficult choice that could return him to prison.
An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.
A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of a new, tougher, head of security arrives to take up her new job....
Konrad von Seidlitz is a young yuppie lawyer currently celebrating his engagement with Cornelia, daughter of minister of justice Volkerts. As a public relations gag, he hasn't paid his parking fines for two years and now insists on being sentenced to jail for two weeks as punishment. Using his knowledge as a lawyer he makes the best out of his visit in jail still working, still in a splendid mood and not adapting to any rule. Probably a good way to get the desired public attention, but also a good way to make enemies inside the jail-house. One day before Konrad is to be released his booth is searched and two hundred grams of cocaine are found. That's a serious problem even for a brilliant lawyer like Konrad and even if you're innocent
The daughter of a British prison governor returns from an American finishing school, and chases after the inmates of her Dad's prison.
Oscar, a tough guard at Newberry Prison, gets into an argument with Jerry, a smallish barber. He causes Jerry to be arrested as a fugitive, and gets him sent to Newberry. It's not long before both men fall in love with Mary, the daughter of the warden. Oscar gets Jerry put on the prison football team, where he is the smallest guy there, figuring that he will look like a fool in front of Mary and then she will pick Oscar. However, things don't turn out quite the way Oscar planned.
Today's the day the Missouri madman Otis Boyle finally gets executed. The Warden and his Captain of the Guards, York, have been looking forward to this for years, but they could never have prepared themselves for his last request. As Warden insists upon fulfilling their most notorious inmate's twisted demand in the name of "tradition" and "protocol," York struggles to keep up in order to keep his job -- no matter how much it asks of him.