Tag: wrongful imprisonment
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Bullet and Rosary
A massacre occurred in a quiet hacienda wherein its owner Rafael Montemayor is found dead, his wife Agnes and son Radino are missing, and the family’s close friend Arman is deemed guilty for the crime. Years after, a newly-paroled Arman seeks to uncover the truth behind the devilry that cost him his freedom and this…
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Lessons at the End of Spring
A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime
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The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates — including…
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Barbed Wire Dolls
Maria, an unfortunate young woman, kills her rapist father in self-defense, and is later tried, sentenced, and shipped off to a woman’s penitentiary where she and her fellow inmates are subjected to psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of a psychotic lesbian warden.
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Gamer
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called “Slayers” allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable’s ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game’s mastermind.
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Time: The Kalief Browder Story
The story of a teenager wrongfully charged with theft and jailed at Riker’s Island prison for over 1,000 days.
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The Queen of Flow
After spending seventeen years in prison unfairly, a talented songwriter seeks revenge on the men who sank her and killed her family.
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Miracle in Cell No. 7
Separated from his daughter, a father with an intellectual disability must prove his innocence when he is jailed for the death of a commander’s child.