1947年，一位年輕的波特蘭銀行家安迪·杜佛蘭（添·羅賓斯飾）被指控殺死其妻子與其情夫，分別被判決兩個無期徒刑，進入緬因州的蕭申克監獄（蕭山克監獄）。另一方面，蕭申克監獄的交易商囚犯瑞德（摩根·費曼飾）在服刑了20年後申請假釋又被駁回，恰巧他也目睹了蕭申克監獄內新囚犯的到來，這其中也包括了安迪。新囚犯們得先與典獄長諾頓和獄警警備隊隊長海利會面，之後才會進入監獄服刑。在當晚，有一名囚犯因無法適應監獄的黑暗環境而哭喊，而後被隊長海利活活打死。
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.
追尋真兇工作又展開了！
艾絲莉茱迪今次跟亡命天涯最佳男主角湯美李鍾斯攜手演出這票房勁爆的電影系列。茱迪飾演的莉比指控自己的丈夫謀殺罪名成立後，竟然反被誣告涉及讓宗兇殺案，在獲得假釋後，她決意穿州過省去進尋他，但卻皮而被假釋官李特維(李斯鍾飾)追縱！導演布斯伯斯福在本片悉心炮製的連串驚心動魄場面。
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.
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.
A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.
At a parole board hearing, James Carter asks for a freedom he is not certain that he deserves.