Acusat de l'assassinat de la seva dona, Andrew Dufresne, després de ser condemnat a cadena perpètua, és enviat a la presó de Shawshank. Amb el pas dels anys aconseguirà guanyar-se la confiança del director del centre i el respecte dels seus companys de presó, especialment del cap de la màfia dels suborns.

Nick Parsons i la seva dona Libby viuen aparentment una vida idíl·lica amb el seu fill Matty. Però una nit navegant Nick desapareix, i Libby és acusada del seu assassinat i enviada a la presó. Allí s'assabenta que el seu marit segueix viu, i també que una vegada jutjada i sentenciada per un crim, una persona no pot tornar a ser jutjada pel mateix delicte.

When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.

Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day will not end well.

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Una mare soltera pren una feina al govern on s'enfronta a la corrupció.

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.

At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves.