As eight convicts sentenced to work release find their numbers quickly dwindling, they quickly realize that a vicious killer is thinning their ranks in a tense tale of jailhouse horrors starring Joe Estevez and Todd Bridges. One by one their lives are being snuffed out in the most grisly of ways, but as the terrified survivors begin to narrow down the killer's identity, the stakes continue to rise along with the body count. Time is fast running out for these hardened criminals, and despite the verdict read at their trials it seems as if someone has decided that their sentences just weren't as stiff as they should have been.