Top billed cast

1. 

   Alfre Woodard

   Warden Bernadine Williams

2. 

   Richard Schiff

   Marty Lumetta

3. 

   Aldis Hodge

   Anthony Woods

4. 

   Wendell Pierce

   Jonathan Williams

5. 

   Danielle Brooks

   Evette Wilkinson

6. 

   Michael O'Neill

   Chaplain David Kendricks

7. 

   Richard Gunn

   Deputy Thomas Morgan

8. 

   LaMonica Garrett

   Major Logan Cartwright

9. 

   Vernee Watson

   Mrs. Collins

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Reviews

A review by badelf

Written by badelf on 2026-05-01

The actors do a fantastic job with this script. But here's my problem: A black woman (2 strikes against her) in a warden position in a (most likely) for-profit, corporation-owned prison, in a back-assward state that murders clearly innocent black people, and she has empathy? This is far-fetched fantasy that is so unbelievable as to be cartoonish. Just to be clear, most of the for-profit prisons in the USA are in right-wing states (except maybe Colorado). The odds of these corporations hiring a woman, or black person, or both as warden would have be pretty damn slim.

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$309,776.00

Keywords

• prison
• death row
• lethal injection
• prison warden
• woman director