Vince Rizzo is a lifelong resident of the tiny, tradition-steeped Bronx enclave of City Island. A family man who makes his living as a corrections officer, Vince longs to become an actor. Vince would rather let his wife believe his weekly poker games are a cover for an affair than admit he is secretly taking acting classes in Manhattan. When Vince is asked to reveal his biggest secret in class, he inadvertently sets off a chaotic chain of events that...

The film follows a new prison guard, a man full of high ideals and moral intentions, but very ill equipped and unable to contain the corruption and degradation he encounters within. When two new inmates, a college professor and a young teenager become the target for the brutal and sadistic gang leader, they find nowhere to run and no one to run to. Their fate is inevitable and terror reigns supreme, it is the law of the jungle, the law of gang rapes,...

"What happens when a struggling rural town tries to revive its economy by inviting a prison in? Prison Town, USA weaves the absorbing tales of a laid-off mill worker-turned-guard, a tenacious dairy owner fighting "Prison industries, " and a transplanted inmate family over the course of two years. With these engrossing narratives and a background chorus of vivid voices, from lifer inmates to local ranchers who say they were duped, prison-boosting politicians...