Four escaped male convicts seize control of a women's prison and proceed to terrorize the inmates, one of whom is reporter Emanuelle, incarcerated on trumped-up charges.

Emanuelle, a reporter, comes just a little too close to exposing a corrupt official, and is sent to prison on trumped-up charges. In the prison, the inmates are constantly humiliated and tortured by the prison staff. Overly affectionate prisoners are forced underwater, while others are obliged to look on. Emanuelle finds an enemy in the deranged Albina, who "runs the prison." For the pleasure of the warden, Emanuelle and Albina are forced to fight each other with knives. Bad becomes worse when four men awaiting execution escape and take over the prison. Gore flows like water.—Jonathan Ruskin <[email protected]>

While on the brink of exposing a corrupt politician, inquisitive journalist Emanuelle winds up behind bars. Framed for a crime she didn't commit, the reporter soon catches ruthless Warden Colleen's eye and makes enemies with Albina, a bullying fellow inmate and the jail's leader. As Emanuelle tries to endure daily humiliation and abuse, the already volatile situation takes a dangerous turn when four male death row convicts break into the prison and take hostages. Held at gunpoint, what are the female prisoners prepared to do to survive the imminent women's prison massacre?—Nick Riganas