A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.

当年轻的丹尼 · 兰伯特(Danny Lambert)从科罗拉多州中南部的营地逃跑时，他成了富有的父亲罗伯逊 · 兰伯特(Robertson Lambert)在整个公园范围内搜寻的对象。杰瑞 · 巴克找到了他，并告诉他在寻求帮助时在一个废弃的瞭望塔等待。相反，巴克打电话给父亲，要求20万美元的赎金。钱送到了，大部分都被巴克埋了。与此同时，惊慌失措的男孩从塔上坠落身亡，巴克尔将尸体从悬崖上扔了下去。由詹姆斯 · 马登领导的联邦调查局逮捕了巴克，但无法判定他绑架罪名成立，他只因敲诈勒索被判处五年徒刑，并被送往卡萨贝尔岛监狱。在那里，他与罗洛 · 兰巴尔、阿拉莫 · 史密斯、本尼 · 凯利和机关枪梅森被分配到一个牢房。联调局已经追踪到巴克和艾米丽 · 埃文斯之间的联系她是丹尼营地的一名护士。以罗洛为首的五个狱友计划杀死本尼并给他穿上巴克的衣服以摆脱警察执行水下越狱，然后头..

When young Danny Lambert runs away from camp in south-central Colorado, he becomes the object of a park-wide-search by his wealthy father Robertson Lambert. He is found by Jerry Barker and told to wait at an abandoned look-out tower while he goes for help. Instead, Barker calls the father and demands $200,000 ransom. The money is delivered and Barker buries most of it. Meanwhile, the panicky boy has fallen from the tower to his death, and Barker drops the body off a cliff. The FBI, led by James Madden, capture Barker but can't convict him of kidnapping and he is given only five years for extortion and sent to Casabel Island Prison. There he is assigned a cell with Rollo Lambar, Alamo Smith, Benny Kelly and Machine Gun Mason. The FBI have now traced an affiliation between Barker and Emily Evans, a nurse at Danny's camp. The five cell-mates, led by Rollo, who plans to kill Benny and dress him in Barker's clothes to throw off the police, execute an underwater prison escape, and head ...

一眨眼，被判终身监禁的弗兰克（布莱恩·考克斯 Brian Cox 饰）已经在铁窗后头待了14个年头了，相比起外面的世界，铁窗后面的生活对于他来说反更加熟悉和亲切。女儿吸毒过量被送进医院的消息犹如一枚重磅炸弹让弗兰克的内心久久不能平静，虽然女儿和自己的关系日渐疏远，但爱女心切的他还是做出了一个大胆的决定——越狱。 莱尼（约瑟夫·费因斯 Joseph Fiennes 饰），布罗迪（利亚姆·坎宁安 Liam Cunningham 饰）和兰斯（多米尼克·库珀 Dominic Cooper 饰）先后加入了弗兰克的越狱计划当中，尽管计划制定的十分美好，但实际实行起来却问题多多。面对来自多方面的阻力，弗兰克一行人最终能够逃出生天吗？

龙蛇混杂的监狱世界，一直由江湖巨头滚筒（谭耀文饰）和被判终身监禁的刀疤（张建声饰）两大势力平分天下，却因为冤狱新囚麦建天（栢天男饰）的出现，改变了风平浪静的监狱生活。 建天先被刀疤连番威迫放弃上诉，后被揭发与滚筒有着深仇大恨而惨被欺凌，建天为求保命只好接受同仓狱友浩正（张继聪饰）的建议，合谋策划了精密的越狱计划。 为了避开邓狱长（黄德斌饰）的严密监管，浩正设局游说滚筒协助，同时却被刀疤识破而被迫接受加盟。就此，狱中四人只好放下成见共同联手，上演一场惊心动魄的逃狱行动！

被指控杀害妻子的Parry（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）坚持他是无罪的，并在被押往狱中的路上逃跑，在路上他截了一辆过路的车，让司机载他去旧金山。然而司机认出他是罪犯，想要告发他。Parry将司机打晕后，在一个陌生女子Irene（劳伦·白考尔 Lauren Bacall 饰）帮助下躲过警察的追捕，来到Irene家中。原来Irene的父亲曾被误判杀死妻子而死在狱中，于是她一直在关注Parry的案件。Parry去找他的好友，路上的计程车司机也认出了他，并介绍他去一个整容医生。在医生那里，Parry接受了整容手术，然而等他回到他好友家中的时候，发现好友意外死亡。他顿时成了嫌疑人。背负两宗命案而“改头换面”的Parry能否沉冤得雪，真正的凶手又是谁？

在犯罪生涯中，魅力、智慧和成功并不能阻止小帕里斯·皮特曼在亚利桑那州的沙漠中服刑10年。然而，那些年应该很快就过去了，因为之前藏了50万美元。新的理想主义的监狱长只会让Pitman想要更快地获得他的财富。他开始操纵每个人以达到他的目标。

Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, but the evil Ricky kills Valerie anyway. Their baby is saved, and later Barnes is arrested and sentenced to life in the maximum security prison, Sullen Voe. Denis fakes his own suicide, then assaults a police car in order to get himself arrested and sent to prison with the intention of tracking down and killing Ricky Barnes. He does not reveal his true name and is called John "What" by the prisoners and guards. Denis escapes from successive prisons, forcing his eventual transfer to Sullen Voe. When he reaches his objective, Ricky Barnes schedules a confrontation, but things do not quite turn out the way Denis had expected.

A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang's dough.