when this film come out the idea of massive imprisonment in the u seem remote . in the past there may have be a will to oppress but it be counter balance or diffuse by ineffectiveness or inefficiency of the government . technology have provide athe mean while political crisis have strengthen the will . in the volitile political climate inside the u one can easily see how a regime could get out of hand and with the use of technology start mass imprisonment and keep inmate in line with thought control and torture and here for a second pregnancy . the danger with make film of this nature be not that it envision a brave new world which those of good conscience should work to avoid but that it might inspire those personality like that of prison director poe ( kurtwood smith ) to the mean and method of more effective repression . do work in the bleak orwellian futuristic 1984 genre warn or provide a model for action . be fortress a warning or a prophesy . see the film .