In 2012, private corporations now own and manage the prison systems. Getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas (Luke Goss) is arrested after a robbery gone bad for his crime boss Markus Kane (Sean Bean). As his accomplices are robbing the bank, two officers come in. Luke tells them to abort, but they refuse; Luke intervenes, but it results in the death of one of the three accomplices. Luke shoots and kills one of the officers and drops off his accomplices in order to fulfill Markus's wishes. In doing so, Luke is captured by the police following a high-speed chase and convicted to Terminal Island.