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.
Release Date: 26 May 2002Runtime: 91 min
Stars:
- Chris Dodson
- Clifton Powell
- Da Brat
- Jerry Foster
- Lark Voorhies
- LisaRaye McCoy
- MC Lyte
- Monica Calhoun
- N'Bushe Wright
- Reed R. McCants
- Robert Archer Lynn
- Tichina Arnold
- Yasiin Bey
Director: Neema Barnette
