****SPOILERS*** Crusading investigating reported Jim Larrabie, Donald Wood, and his friend Bob Gordon,Carayle Moore Jr, are railroaded into prison by corrupt politician J.W Moett, Joe King, who for some strange reason his name-Mollet-is bleeped out everything it's mentioned in the movie? That in the end leads to a prison revolt by the inmates whom Moett ordered to be gassed to keep them from talking in what he'd been doing to them in the inhuman treatment his prison guards subject them too. That's when the incorruptible attorney general William Davidson shows up at the prison to see what's going on there.
It was Jim's girlfriend Barbara Winston, Kay Linaker, who informed Davidson about the inhuman conditions and practices at the prison, especially the coal mine connected to it, that the unmentionable J.W Moett was running. In an attempt to cover up his crimes Moett orders the prison warden Grayson, Charles Middelton, to seal the mine and tear gas the inmates to death and make it look like a tragic accident. This has Jim lead a prison or mine revolt that has the "doomed" inmates break out of the mine and confront Grayson who after acting tough pi**ed his pants and spills the beans on his boss Moett as well as his #1 henchman paid off-by Moett- attorney as well as Barbara's dad George Winston!
It was Jim's undercover reporting that brought Moett's reign of terror to an end. But he paid a steep price for doing it with his good friend Bob Gordon losing his life when he was electrocuted with 11,000 volts of electricity trying to escape over an, like in a Nazi concentration camp, electrified fence. That doesn't even count the dozen of inmates that ended up killed working in the coal mine that was as bad as any Soviet Gulag. What that trio of criminals Geroge Winston J.W Mott & Wardon Grayson got in being put behind bars was a lot less then what they did in their inhuman treatment of those they abused in the prison system that they ran.
It was Jim's girlfriend Barbara Winston, Kay Linaker, who informed Davidson about the inhuman conditions and practices at the prison, especially the coal mine connected to it, that the unmentionable J.W Moett was running. In an attempt to cover up his crimes Moett orders the prison warden Grayson, Charles Middelton, to seal the mine and tear gas the inmates to death and make it look like a tragic accident. This has Jim lead a prison or mine revolt that has the "doomed" inmates break out of the mine and confront Grayson who after acting tough pi**ed his pants and spills the beans on his boss Moett as well as his #1 henchman paid off-by Moett- attorney as well as Barbara's dad George Winston!
It was Jim's undercover reporting that brought Moett's reign of terror to an end. But he paid a steep price for doing it with his good friend Bob Gordon losing his life when he was electrocuted with 11,000 volts of electricity trying to escape over an, like in a Nazi concentration camp, electrified fence. That doesn't even count the dozen of inmates that ended up killed working in the coal mine that was as bad as any Soviet Gulag. What that trio of criminals Geroge Winston J.W Mott & Wardon Grayson got in being put behind bars was a lot less then what they did in their inhuman treatment of those they abused in the prison system that they ran.