Oscar nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) stars as Helen Hewitt the youngest woman ever to be placed in charge of an all-male maximum security prison in this hard-hitting drama series written and produced by the multi-award-winning Lynda La Plante (Prime Suspect Widows). The series traces Hewitt's progress following her high-profile appointment as governor of the troubled Barfield Prison which has been partially destroyed by recent rioting. As Barfield is rebuilt Hewitt must fight for the respect of suspicious antagonistic officers counter the threat of renewed violence... from a volatile and ever-growing prison population and finally demand the right to implement a more effective new regime. Helen Hewitt has a formidable task and few allies... [show more]
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All six episodes from the first series of the Lynda La Plante thriller, set in a maximum security prison. Janet McTeer plays Helen Hewitt, the female prison warden trying to assert her authority in what is seen as a man's world, while at the same time trying to deal with the many day-to-day problems of running the prison. In this series, Hewit has to deal with the fall-out of an apparent suicide, innumerable escape attempts, and the trial of two prisoners accused of murder, while trying to hold on to her job in the face of an upcoming Prison Services inspection.
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