Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.

After her release from prison Alex, who has lost her faith in love, tries to reclaim her psychic bal...

A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her o...

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her ...

The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with ...

The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a pros...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing ...

In an Edo-era women's prison, Ochiyo manages to escape execution during a fire and becomes determine...

Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a con...

Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted for her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive and wants t...

A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.

As a woman walks the "last mile" to her execution she remembers back to the incidents that got her f...

After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of h...

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.

Jeong-hye gives a birth to a baby boy in the prison. Her and other inmates create a women's choir to...

Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, whe...

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy f...

Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women -- ...

A young woman is falsely convicted of a bank robbery and sent to a maximum-security prison run by a ...

Penguins Behind Bars is an Adult Swim special, adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Ja...