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- A Jewish humanist and lawyer (Academy-Award® nominated David Strathairn) is court-appointed to represent a Neo-Nazi Skinhead on trial for the racially-motivated murder of an East Indian immigrant.
- An innocent girl gets framed by her boyfriend and end up with a seven year sentence on a drug charge. Now she has to survive the brutal world of a women's federal prison.
- Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
- Part documentary and part fiction, the film recreates a robbery and the subsequent incarceration of the thief. Interviews are conducted with individuals involved in the penal system, such as the judge, a city alderman, a church minister, the director of a prison, a correctional officer, an inmate, his wife and children, an ex-inmate. Together their views provide a remarkably well-balanced picture of the effectiveness and failures of the penal system.
- In 1979 Norma Bailey made the gritty documentary Nose and Tina, about a prostitute, Tina, and her boyfriend, Nose. Fifteen years later Tina (now Linda), contacted Bailey from an alcohol rehabilitation center. Bailey follows Linda and her children, sisters, mother, boyfriends and various extended family members as they move in and out of Linda's life
- How do you rehabilitate a career criminal? Killing Time follows Canadian inmate Philip Pynn as he prepares to transition from a prison cell to the outside world, and illustrates the cycle of crime.
- A son travels to a remote island in British Columbia to search for his father's killer, only to discover a problematic police investigation; Ashley Smith's tragic death in prison was supposed to lead to reforms.