Plot

Frances is in the pen for killing her abusive husband. The abused the prisoners rise up against the "new plantation" that harvest human labor for profit. Nothing will stop Frances and her fellow inmates in this brutal battle for justice.

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.—L. J. Allen-2 (Leslye Allen)

A new group of inmates arrive at the Whitehead Correctional Facility, including Frances Shepard, who claims to be innocent. She meets the leaders Nikki Barnes and Wet and shares the cell of the pregnant Lil' Momma. Soon she learns that the corrupt Warden Nelson and Captain Alan Deese exploit the inmates with a slave labor for companies. In addition, Deese sexually abuses the inmates; and his favorite, Aisha, snitches on the other women. When Deese rapes Lil' Momma, who consequently dies with her baby, Nikki, Wet, Frances and Aisha revolt and their riot brings along tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil