- HD 1080
- Runtime: 99m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Jamaa Fanaka
- Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Thommy Pollard, Hazel Spears, Donovan Womack, Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman
- keywords: prison, gay interest, boxing, l.a. rebellion, gay theme
- Slogan: There's only one way out, and 100 fools stand in the way!
- providers: fuboTV, ScreenPix Apple TV Channel
- The Penitentiary is featured in the top rankings of 1979
- #66 in Top Action Movies of 1979
- #37 in Top Crime Movies of 1979
A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.