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...
