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Official Site: CivilBrand.com
Director: Neema Barnette
Distributed by: Lions
Gate Films
Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 2003 (Limited)
A beautiful young mother and nurse is sent to Whitehead Correctional
Institute, a maximum-security prison for women. Surrounded by hardened
repeat offenders, this meek woman - incarcerated for killing her abusive
husband - has just joined the ranks of one of the most lucrative
businesses in America: the prison industrial complex. With every
eye-opening day that passes, with every cruelty leveled against Shepherd
and her fellow inmates, it becomes more and more obvious that profit -
not rehabilitation - is the goal at Whitehead. After a series of pivotal
events force the women to rise up against the injustices at the
penitentiary, they band together against the "new plantation"
workplace that harvests human labor for profit. But the odds are stacked
against them.
Cast:
LisaRaye, N'Bushe Wright,
Monica Calhoun, Mos Def,
Clifton Powell, Lark Voorhies,
Tichina Arnold, Reed R. McCants,
MC Lyte, Da Brat
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