Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Tom Selleck F. Murray Abraham Laila Robins David Rasche Todd Graff M.C. Gainey Peter Van Norden Richard Young Badja Djola Bruce A. Young James T. Morris Terry Golden Dennis Burkley Charle Landry Tobin Bell Scott Jaeck Holly Fulger Philip Baker Hall J. Kenneth Campbell Jim Ortlieb James Staszkiel Brian J. Williams Maggie Baird Derek Anunciation Ben Slack J.J. Johnston Brian Brophy Ben Rawnsley Dean Hill Jack Orend Ernie Lively Larry Brothers Dave Florek Joseph Carberry Dann Florek Doug MacHugh Lare Roberts Thomas B. Kackert Vito Peterson Alanniss Allddero Bob Maroff David Rhodes Brown Jeffrey Earl Young Michael J. Budge David Meligan Ron Collins Gary Velasco Robert E. Nichols
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