| Release Date: | May 2002 |
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| Genres: | Crime / Thriller / Drama |
| Awards: | 4 wins & 1 nomination |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
| Cast: | LisaRaye (Frances Shepard), N'Bushe Wright (Nikki Barnes), Monica Calhoun (Wet) Clifton Powell (Warden Alan Deese) Mos Def (Michael Meadows) Da Brat (Sabrina) Tichina Arnold (Aisha) Lark Voorhies (Lil' Momma) Reed R. McCants (Warden Nelson (as Reed McCants)) MC Lyte (Sgt. Cervantes) Chris Dodson (Miller) Jerry Foster (Doctor Moss) Robert Archer Lynn (John Banks (as Robert Lynn)) |
Women prisoners strike up a friendship with a young law student who works as a part-time prison guard. Together they discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their "slave labor", the women take over the prison - A rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates.
