Prison film Prison film A prison film is a film genre concerned with prison life and often prison escape. These films range from acclaimed dramas examining the nature of prisons, such as "Cool Hand Luke", "Midnight Express", "Brubaker", "Escape from Alcatraz", "The Shawshank Redemption", and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" to actioners like "Lock Up" and "Undisputed", and even comedies satirizing the genre like "Stir Crazy", "Life", and "Let's Go To Prison". Themes repeatedly visited in the action films include escape attempts, gang activities inside the prison, guard and management cruelty, and an entire subgenre of films where the toughest prisoners are
Escape from Furnace Escape from Furnace Escape from Furnace is a series of novels by Alexander Gordon Smith. Escape from Furnace is the United States title of the series. In the United Kingdom the series is known as "Furnace". The books are written from the point of view of the teenage protagonist Alex Sawyer, and are about his incarceration in the fictional London prison Furnace Penitentiary. "Escape from Furnace: Lockdown" is followed by "Solitary", "Death Sentence", "Fugitives" and "Execution". Smith followed up the series with a novella, "The Night Children", which tells the story of the 17-year-old commissioned officer Kreuz (known as Warden