Prison Stories: Women on the Inside (1991)

Directed by

Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver, Penelope Spheeris

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

4.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three women face life inside a prison, each dealing with abuse, addiction, and the struggle to keep their families together. Their separate stories show how the system treats them and the choices they make to survive.

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What happens

Prison Stories: Women on the Inside is a 1991 American drama film directed by Donna Deitch, Joan Micklin Silver and Penelope Spheeris and written by Dick Beebe, Martin Jones, Marlane Meyer and Jule Selbo. The film stars Rae Dawn Chong, Lolita Davidovich, Annabella Sciorra, Talisa Soto and Rachel Ticotin. The film premiered on HBO on January 26, 1991. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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