Synopsis

September 1932. The Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, situated 430 miles west-southwest of Chicago, held among the nation's most dangerous men. Among them was Nick Segal, a man who had committed six murders, yet was convicted only for violating the Volstead Act. He received a three-year sentence and was now eligible for parole after serving just one year. During a routine unloading of a truck, inmate Gus Caserta “accidentally” dropped a one-hundred-pound sack of potatoes on Nick, near