Brubaker
One man against a cruel system.
CrimeDramaprisonundercoverliberation of prisonersarkansasprison wardenbased on true storyprison brutalityabuse1960sprison farmprisoner abuse
A gritty institutional drama about one man's crusade against systemic prison corruption and brutality, grounded in moral conviction rather than spectacle.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
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