***SPOILERS*** Excellent behind bars or prison film narrated by Charles Lung, as the voice of Falsom Prison, on how brutal the US Prison System was at the turn of the 20th Century and how men of consciouses and humanity went as far as risking their careers as well as in some cases their live in order to correct it.
Falsom Prison run by the take no BS and give no mercy warden Ben Ricky, Ted de Corsia, has become so untenable for the convicts sent there that they were more then willing to risk their lives, as well as take the lives of others,in making attempts to break out of it. It's when the new second in command Mark Benson, played by future Mister District Attorney David Brian, got there that things started to improve for the prisoners to the point that even the most hardened convicts accepted their being incarnated there as long as they were treated humanely.
***SPOILER ALERT*** It was Warden Rickey who's brutal actions, that he mostly participated in himself, against the prisoners that soon lead to a major prison breakout that cost the lives of some dozen convicts as well as his own. That despite Benson's best efforts in trying to prevent it. It was the soon to be paroled convict Red Pardue, Philip Carey, who touched off this bloody break-out by informing on fellow convict Nick Ferretti, William Campbell, who was about to make a break out that would have, in Parude driving the truck that Ferritti was hiding in, cost him his release. In fact Prude saved Ferretti's, who's in for murder one, life by preventing him from breaking out which would have ended up with him being shot down before he made it to the prison walls or high wire electrified fences. With Warden Ricky instead of putting Pardue in protective custody until his release from prison putting him into the general prison population he ended up getting killed, by a boobie trap explosion, a day before he was t be released from jail.
**SPOILERS*** Convict Chuck Daniels, Steve Cochron,who's been planning a break-out for years sees his chance not only to break out of Falsom Prison but get even with those who were responsible for the death of his good friend and fellow convict Red Pardue convicted murderer Ferretti and the two bit white collar hood and official Folsom Prison plumber Tinker, Dick Wesson, who dynamited Pardue to death! All hell breaks loose as Danial & Co. make their escape attempt with warden Ricky instead of defusing the situation actually inflames it. With everything going to pot and the national guard called in to prevent the bloodshed Daniel and a number of his attempted escapees brake into Ferretti and Tinker's cell to exact Justice, prison justice, on them. As things turned out the justice that Daniel's & Co. exacted was to backfire on them as well!
It was this failed prison break out that cost the lives of over a dozen prisoners and prison guards, including warden Ricky, that finally got the state of California to put into its prison the reforms that Mark Benson was asking for. Those behind bars in Folsom Prison or any other prison in the country did forfeit their rights as free man and women for the crimes that they committed in being sent there. But by brutalizing them like Warden Ricky did it made them even worse and caused them to takes the kind of actions that unlimitedly ended up not only taking their but innocent persons, convicts and prison guards, lives as well!
Falsom Prison run by the take no BS and give no mercy warden Ben Ricky, Ted de Corsia, has become so untenable for the convicts sent there that they were more then willing to risk their lives, as well as take the lives of others,in making attempts to break out of it. It's when the new second in command Mark Benson, played by future Mister District Attorney David Brian, got there that things started to improve for the prisoners to the point that even the most hardened convicts accepted their being incarnated there as long as they were treated humanely.
***SPOILER ALERT*** It was Warden Rickey who's brutal actions, that he mostly participated in himself, against the prisoners that soon lead to a major prison breakout that cost the lives of some dozen convicts as well as his own. That despite Benson's best efforts in trying to prevent it. It was the soon to be paroled convict Red Pardue, Philip Carey, who touched off this bloody break-out by informing on fellow convict Nick Ferretti, William Campbell, who was about to make a break out that would have, in Parude driving the truck that Ferritti was hiding in, cost him his release. In fact Prude saved Ferretti's, who's in for murder one, life by preventing him from breaking out which would have ended up with him being shot down before he made it to the prison walls or high wire electrified fences. With Warden Ricky instead of putting Pardue in protective custody until his release from prison putting him into the general prison population he ended up getting killed, by a boobie trap explosion, a day before he was t be released from jail.
**SPOILERS*** Convict Chuck Daniels, Steve Cochron,who's been planning a break-out for years sees his chance not only to break out of Falsom Prison but get even with those who were responsible for the death of his good friend and fellow convict Red Pardue convicted murderer Ferretti and the two bit white collar hood and official Folsom Prison plumber Tinker, Dick Wesson, who dynamited Pardue to death! All hell breaks loose as Danial & Co. make their escape attempt with warden Ricky instead of defusing the situation actually inflames it. With everything going to pot and the national guard called in to prevent the bloodshed Daniel and a number of his attempted escapees brake into Ferretti and Tinker's cell to exact Justice, prison justice, on them. As things turned out the justice that Daniel's & Co. exacted was to backfire on them as well!
It was this failed prison break out that cost the lives of over a dozen prisoners and prison guards, including warden Ricky, that finally got the state of California to put into its prison the reforms that Mark Benson was asking for. Those behind bars in Folsom Prison or any other prison in the country did forfeit their rights as free man and women for the crimes that they committed in being sent there. But by brutalizing them like Warden Ricky did it made them even worse and caused them to takes the kind of actions that unlimitedly ended up not only taking their but innocent persons, convicts and prison guards, lives as well!