Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
Piper Chapman ha commesso un errore, una volta sola. Dieci anni fa, seguendo la sua amante lesbica spacciatrice, ha trasportato una valigia piena di soldi. Ora è una donna diversa, ma deve pagare il suo debito con la giustizia e scontare 15 mesi in prigione. Ispirata a una storia vera, Orange Is The New Black mescola dramma e commedia, e descrive la vita in prigione tra angherie e frustrazioni. Piper è sulla difensiva, non sa di chi fidarsi, eppure non tutte le detenute paiono sue avversarie.
Wentworth è ambientata in Australia ed è incentrata sul personaggio di Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack) quando viene rinchiusa nel carcere con l'accusa di tentato omicidio ai danni del marito. Bea viene separata dalla figlia e portata a Wentworth in custodia cautelare, dove vive in una sorta di limbo in attesa di essere processata. Bea è quindi costretta a comprendere le regole secondo le quali funziona la prigione.
Drama set in a women's prison in Germany. Susanne Teubner, a sympathetic young woman who has killed her husband in an affect, is poorly advised by her lawyer and sentenced to life imprisonment for willful murder. The arrival in prison is a shock to her. Resigned and exhausted, she endures the degrading admission procedure. She doesn't notice that the young doctor Dr. Beck immediately felt more than professional interest for her.
Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge of her life: bonding with her fellow inmates and helping them take back control of their lives.
Dopo una fatidica lite in famiglia una madre amorevole finisce in prigione, dove lotta per sopravvivere nella speranza di rivedere sua figlia.
Wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit, 13 year old Guadalupe Santos is sentenced to 30 years in jail, while in jail she gives birth to a baby girl who is taken from her by her older sister Milagros. 15 years later she escapes jail and meets with Daniel Moncada who turns out to be the brother of the man she was accused of killing.
Hairdresser Suus ends up in jail after attempting to murder her husband.
Stories about women in prison. Their addictions, unresolved problems with the justice system and inner struggles.
A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.
When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.
Da organizzatrice di eventi a direttrice di un carcere femminile, Laura Willis rivela le gioie e i dolori della vita dietro le sbarre in questa serie commedia sarcastica.
Nel carcere della contea di Sacramento le detenute lottano contro le autorità e tra di loro, cercando di trarre il meglio dalla vita e…dall'amore dietro le sbarre.
With exclusive access to HMP Durham, this series offers a rare insight into the challenges that prison staff face daily. Filmed over seven months, Prison tells the human story on both sides of the door, from the perspectives of staff and prisoners, and reveals the issues that they all face.
New modern women's prison in Hämeenlinna received new residents in late 2020. Prisoners Lilja, Jane and Mirella are moving in from the temporary facilities with anticipation, while the staff are trying to adapt to the changing conditions and different working spaces.
