Private Prison - in Fiction

In Fiction

• Oldboy (Movie, 2003) -- Story of Oh Dae-su, who is locked in a private prison (run by prison manager, Oh Dal-su as Park Cheol-woong) for 15 years. The story is based on a web of conspiracy and violence after his release. See also, Old Boy (manga)
• Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (Movie, 1988) is an Australian film directed by John Hillcoat. The script was written by Hillcoat, Evan English, Gene Conkie, Nick Cave and Hugo Race. It is set in Central Industrial Prison, a privately run maximum security prison in the middle of the Australian desert.
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (Movie, 1991) -- Set in the future of 2001, when all prison institutions have been privatized.
• Seeing I (Novel) -- Partly set in a private prison called the Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre, in which corporate spies and those who know too much are held.
• White Triangle (Fictional organization) -- Racist organization in the post-Zero Hour continuity of DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes. Part of the plot involves the release of prisoners of a supermax private prison called Planet Hell.
• Lock-Up (comics)—Lock-Up (Lyle Bolton) is a DC Comics villain and an enemy of Batman. His first full appearance was in Detective Comics #697-699 (June-Aug 1996), which began with him capturing Two-Face, and taking him to his private prison.
• In the dystopian futuristic movie The Fortress, a private prison puts implants in its inmates to further control them.
• Death Race 2000—A future prison for profit uses the inmates as TV pay-per view show.
• Death Race (film)—a remake of Death Race 2000, and Death Race 2, its prequel.
• A Scanner Darkly (film)—A rehabilitative private prison for drug criminals proves to be the farm in which the drugs are grown.
• Deadman Wonderland (TV show) -- Inmates are tortured and killed for the amusement of the wealthy and powerful inside of a private prison.