Convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, Carmen is sentenced to life imprisonment on Terminal Island: a place without guards or laws and a defacto anarchic society. As violence mounts, Carmen finds herself leading the island’s underground resistance in a plot to abolish the leader’s reign of terror.

Alongside spectacular explosions and vengeful beach babes, Stephanie Rothman’s subversive sensibilities are on riotous display in this cult film. Taking up with frisky outlaws, this wily B-movie’s radical politics coincided with the convulsive beginnings of the prison abolition movement in America.