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.

Starring:

Clifton Powell, Da Brat, Lark Voorhies, LisaRaye, Mary Ann Schmidt, MC Lyte, Monica Calhoun, Mos Def, N'Bushe Wright, Reed R McCants, Tichina Arnold

Genre:

Drama, Thriller, Crime