Prison of Secrets

Mar 16, 1997

1h 32m

★ 4.5

She witnessed the unthinkable... She fought back with the truth.

Overview

Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of this uncooperative attitude gets the maximum sentence, 10 years in a women's jail wing. Model husband Larry, who wasn't informed of her dumb schemes is left running her appeal, the household and spoiled daughter who now feels abandoned. Since most inmates are junkies or prostitutes, sergeant Ed Crang and fellow corrupt jailers can run a 'favors in kind exchange'. For rebels, it gets worse. Larry however has his own radio show, so it all hangs on gathering proof.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Crime

Production Companies

Carroll Newman Productions

Hearst Entertainment Productions

Lifetime

Prison of Secrets Trailers

Cast

Lynn Schaffer

Stephanie Zimbalist

Angie

Finola Hughes

Larry Schaffer

Gary Frank

Carla

Rusty Schwimmer

Frannie

Kimberly Russell

Maria

Tasia Valenza

Brad

Joel Polis

Harriet

Dale Dickey

Betsy

Paige Moss

Carey

Stephanie Sawyer

Sergeant Ed Crang

Dan Lauria

Stu

Stephen Quadros

Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. Yvonne is in love and about to marry the establishment's doctor, and it does not help that one teenage girl falls for him - and is corresponded. It's a hard life for the girls, and for the new female warden.

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