A lawyer in his youth (Christian Slater) takes on the case of an inmate (Kevin Bacon) held at Alcatraz, who stands accused of murder in 1941. The defense centers around the idea that it was the prison’s harsh conditions that led to the crime. Gary Oldman portrays a Warden lacking compassion – technically an associate Warden – and R. Lee Ermey appears as the presiding judge. "Murder in the First," released in 1995,…