Malik el Djebena, who is condemned to six years in prison, cannot read or write, but soon figures out the politics of the prison. Though Malik is only 19-years-old, the leader of the Corsican gang who rules the prison corners him and gives him certain 'missions' to carry out. He quickly gains the confidence of the gang leader, as these assignments begin to toughen him up. But Malik soon develops some plans of his own.

Bradley, a former boxer turned drug runner, lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.

As World War II rages on, the Germans open Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. Together, under the guidance of the brilliant Bartlett the resourceful Hendley, and the steely, determined Hilts, the men plot, scheme, and dig their way to freedom at any cost!

Andy is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to the toughest prison in the Northeast.

After security expert Ray Breslin is hired to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Hong Kong tech mogul from a formidable Latvian prison, Breslin's girlfriend is also captured.

"A ripped-from-the-headlines social-problem picture about inmates' rights that was inspired by a recent spate of uprisings in American prisons ... shot on location at Folsom State Prison, with real inmates and guards as extras"--Container.

Monroe Hutchen was convicted of murder and sentenced to life without parole at the Sweetwater maximum security prison in California. Now, Hutchen boxes behind bars, and he's become the champion of a loosely organized prison fighting circuit. When convicted heavyweight champion "Iceman" Chambers enters Sweetwater, Hutchens finds he has a serious competitor in the same lockup for the first time. After Hutchens challenges the arrogant Chambers to a bout,...

Director Reg Traviss tells the story of a prison officer, Sam Norwood, who quickly finds out that the only thing that distinguishes the prisoners from the guards in some of the UK's toughest prisons is who holds the key. Sam learns of the underworld of corrupt prison officers, the drugs they traffic, the criminal gangs they work for, and what they get paid for their sins.

Framed for manslaughter after he breaks a story about city corruption, reporter Frank Ross is sure he₂ll prove his innocence. But that₂s not how the system works at Rocky Point Penitentiary. There, cellblock guards are vicious, the jute-mill labor is endless, and the powers Ross fought on the outside conspire to keep him in. Frank₂s hope has turned to hopelessness. And he₂s starting to crack.

Twitch is an inmate incarcerated at New Alcatraz who gets himself transferred across country to an even more violent prison. He gets caught in between two rival gangs fighting for control of the prison. He forms a shaky alliance with a gang leader who is wrongly blamed for a jailhouse killing. They must work together in order to stay alive and save their loved ones who are trapped in the prison lockdown.