Civil Brand

Movie Information

Women prisoners strike up a friendship with a young law student who works as a part-time prison guard. Together they discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their "slave labor", the women take over the prison - A rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates.—L. J. Allen-2 (Leslye Allen)

Director:

Neema Barnette

Writer:

Preston A. Whitmore II, Joyce Renee Lewis

Actors:

LisaRaye McCoy, N'Bushe Wright, Yasiin Bey