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- A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
- A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
- A prisoner becomes a lawyer and fights to overturn his life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.
- A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
- Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
- A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.
- A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.
- Spike has just finished the 20-year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.
- Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
- The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
- When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
- A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
- An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
- The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
- Acting as a decoy in a bank robbery Dot get arrested. But before going to jail she manages to steal the $40, 000 loot from her accomplices. Her arrest attracts the attention of her former sweetheart Ken who believes her innocent.
- The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads to a life changing punishment. Peter Madigan, a 15-year-old from the suburbs commits a senseless act, causing a commuter train to derail killing the engineer.
- An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
- Ed Andrews, a young shipping clerk, is in love with Dora Birch, and has as rival Tom Matthews, but wins the girl, much to his mother's satisfaction. A raise in salary hastens their marriage and two years later their baby arrives. Andrews, celebrating the event, goes to the corner bar with George Gardner, his chum, and, after several drinks, Gardner gets into a fight with Jim Matthews, Tom's brother, knocking him down with a blow, Matthew's head striking the pavement, causing his death. George runs away, and Ed bends over Matthews, trying to raise him. The crowd threatens him and he starts to run, but is soon caught. In the morning he is fined for disorderly conduct, and is near freedom when word comes that Matthews is dead, and he is held for murder. Tom is a ward detective, and four months after the arrest, swears that Jim was killed while resisting highway robbery. Ed is sentenced to death, and the shock kills his wife, his mother taking the child and rearing her. She pleads with the Governor, and in view of the evidence he commutes Ed's sentence to imprisonment for life. His mother tells him of his wife's death, and, with his nerve crushed, he begins his prison life. Nineteen years later his daughter falls in love with Paul Matthews, son of the man who had sworn away his life. Ed's mother continues her efforts in his behalf, and Gardner, dying in a distant city, tells the truth about the assault. Ed is pardoned and meets his daughter for the first time in the warden's office. Ed and his daughter are having luncheon on the beach when he sees a man fall from a boat, swims out to save him and brings him to shore, but the man is dead and Ed recognized the body as that of Tom Matthews, the brother of the man his friend had killed, and on whose evidence he had spent twenty years in prison. Then he feels that while nothing can give him back his lost youth, his wasted life and the wife he loved, he has overtaken the man who was responsible for his troubles.
- A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually committed by his girlfriend. When he's released, her boarding-house pals decide to try to help her out in order to keep his girlfriend's reputation isn't spoiled.
- After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
- Jim Montgomery receives a life sentence for a murder he did not commit. He escapes upon hearing that his mother is ill and begins a new life in California after her funeral.
- In the desolated wilds is a Trading Post, to which Oliver Thornton went to seek obscurity after being falsely convicted of a crime in the States. Fate brought him a wife, a girl from the wilds, and soon a child, and all was happy until his prison record became known to a villainous trapper who used this information to turn Thorton's wife against him. Failing in this, Duclos, the trapper, and his Indian aides, kidnap the wife. Thornton's brother arrives at the Post with news of Oliver's name being cleared of the crime for which he was innocently convicted. The two brothers rescue Oliver's wife and Duclos, the trapper, is killed by one of the Indians whom he had double-crossed.
- Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.
- The work of the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary.
- Helen Briggs volunteers to conduct a mask-making workshop at the local penitentiary. As she struggles to convey her empathy for the prisoners, Helen is forced to question her own faith in the redemptive power of Art.
- Count Fabiano Romani, an Italian nobleman, discovers that his wife is in love with Arturo Durazzi, and shortly afterward is stricken with what appears to be cholera. The guilty couple, who have long been anxious to have the husband out of the way, bury him in the family vault of the Romani, but Count Fabiano, who was not dead, manages to escape from the tomb, and with the thought of breaking up the unfortunate affair between his wife and Arturo, disguises himself, and conceives the novel idea of winning back his wife from the man who has taken her from him. Fabiano meets Juliet by posing as a rich friend of her dead husband, and succeeds in winning her promise to marry him. Arturo, furious at discovering her fickleness, challenges Fabiano to a duel, but on the dueling ground, Fabiano reveals his real identity, and then kills Arturo. Shortly after her marriage, Juliet begs her husband to show her the hiding place of his wonderful collection of jewels and, the time for his revenge having come, Fabiano takes her, blindfolded, to the tomb in which she had imprisoned him and in one of the most powerful scenes of the photoplay, discloses to her the fact that he is her first husband. In spite of her prayers for forgiveness, he confines her in the tomb, there to await the fate which she had planned for him.
- A feature-length documentary that follows the hidden lives of modern-day Jews incarcerated in our nation's maximum security prisons.
- London, 1888. A killer known by the name of Jack the Ripper brutally murders five prostitutes. Though the killings make the world's headlines, the slayer's identity remains a mystery for over 120 years. But new evidence found by an international team of experts leads to a German sailor and to New York's Lower East Side...
- Larry Brainerd is let out of Sing Sing on parole and wants to leave his life of crime behind, but his old gang plots to "get" him.
- After serving fifteen years of a twenty-year prison term for embezzlement, Joe Moore is released early for good behavior. In New York, he finds Matthew Owens and James Horton, his former business associates, and demands that they pay what they owe him. Since Moore has lost his copy of their agreement, Owens refuses, but Horton, who has raised Moore's daughter as his own, promises to pay. When Horton is found murdered, Moore is suspected. After Robert Blakemore, the fiancé of Moore's daughter, discovers Horton's copy of the agreement, it is revealed that Moore, previously the business' bookkeeper, took the blame for Owens' embezzlement in return for $25,000 and the assurance that his daughter would be cared for. Owens, in attempting to steal this money from Horton's safe, was stopped by Horton, who was then killed by Owens' hired man. Owens is imprisoned, while Moore leaves without informing his daughter of his true identity, to protect her reputation.
- George Grant has invented a device which is being financed by his partner, John Benson, who receives an offer of $200,000 for the patent rights of the valuable invention. The offer is accepted with Grant's approval. Grant enters a barroom where an old man reprimands Dave Wilson, a young man out of employment, for wasting his time in barrooms. Dave strikes the old man, and Grant interferes, giving the young man a black eye. Benson sees the encounter and Grant returns to his home office with Benson. As Benson is leaving he meets Dave, who tells him he has been persuaded by his mother to apologize to Grant. The apology is accepted. Then Grant suddenly drops dead. Dave hears a police whistle blown outside, and runs into the next room where he crawls under the bed. Policemen and members of Grant's household arrive and discover Grant's body. One of the policemen telephones to the police station, and Detective Doyle is assigned to take charge of the case. Dave is present when Doyle arrives on the scene of the murder, and explains to Doyle how Grant dropped dead. Meanwhile a policeman finds a pistol in the yard, and hands it to Doyle. Benson telephones from his home that he wishes to speak to Grant. Doyle answers that there has been an accident and he had better come over at once. When Benson arrives Dave urges him to tell the detective that Benson knew of Dave's mission to the house, but Benson answers, "I know about the fight, and I know nothing about the apology." Dave collapses and is dragged off to the police station. The scene then shifts to the courtroom where Dave has been tried for murder and the jury have found him guilty. Shortly after Dave is electrocuted. One year later James Sprague, the criminologist, is visiting his old friend, the warden, and is shown the reforms the warden has made in prison life. The warden believes in the golden rule, and between working hours the men are allowed their freedom and are treated as human beings. The prisoners are shown playing baseball, and are given manual exercises. During the game the warden tells Sprague that he is glad capital punishment has been abolished as many an innocent man had been electrocuted. The warden then shows Sprague a photograph of Grant's home, declaring that he doesn't believe that the man who was electrocuted for killing Grant was actually guilty. Sprague is interested in the case, and departs with the photograph in his pocket. We next see Sprague at Grant's home making a close examination of the room in which Grant was killed. He looks out of the window into the yard where he sees a boy in a swing. He chases the boy out of the yard, gets on the swing, and concludes that Grant was shot by the murderer swinging himself to a height on a level with Grant's window which would account for the revolver picked up in the yard subsequent to the murder. Meanwhile Benson's guilty conscience has made him a nervous wreck. He goes to his home, where he has another vision of Grant, and shoots at the specter with his revolver. The servants rush in, and the butler revives him with a stimulating drink. Sprague consults Detective Doyle, who asserts that Grant's murder was a case of murder for revenge, and in his subsequent investigation learns of Benson's strange attack of nervousness. Under the pretense of wanting to make a business contract, Sprague makes the acquaintance of Benson. He bribes the butler and maid servant to get themselves discharged and the next day he installs servants of his own choice in Benson's household. Sprague's wife is engaged as the maid servant. The butler and Sprague's wife, abetted by a detective, act so strangely and get Benson into such an extremely nervous condition that when Sprague calls on him to close the proposed contract he begins to suspect that he is being spied on, especially on being asked whether he is interested in the abolition of capital punishment. Sprague then relates to him the peculiar case of Dave Wilson in connection with the murder of George Grant, which increases Benson's apparent nervousness. Meanwhile, Detective Doyle, who is in the yard, fires off a revolver, at a given signal from Sprague. Benson becomes hysterical and confesses that he committed the murder. At the close of the picture, Benson is seen in prison stripes in order to emphasize that while Dave Wilson had no chance of redemption. Benson, through the abolition of capital punishment, would at least be given a chance.
- A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
- Aaron confronts O'Reilly in court, targeting the search warrant used in Aaron's arrest. Maskins arranges for a dangerous inmate, Cassius Dawkins, to be transferred to Bellmore in hopes that he'll cause problems for Safiya and Aaron.
- Jerry Seinfeld cruises around Westchester County, New York in a 1967 Jaguar Mark II with Robert Klein, one of his idols.
- A prisoner becomes a lawyer and fights to overturn his life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.