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- A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.
- A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination plot.
- A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
- A prisoner becomes a lawyer and fights to overturn his life sentence for a crime he didn't commit.
- A reformed convict goes undercover with the help of an angry detective to ensnare a psychotic mobster.
- Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
- A crook arrested for a jewelry heist initially refuses to give up his accomplices, but he changes his mind once his wife dies under worrying circumstances.
- A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
- A paroled labor racketeer attempts to connect with his rebellious teenage daughter. Meanwhile, his deceitful former partner wants to kill him and a politically ambitious attorney wants to jail him.
- Spike has just finished the 20-year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.
- An ex-con who wants to go straight has difficulties trying to reintegrate into society while on parole.
- A corrupt D.A. (Thurston Hall) with political ambitions is angered by news stories implicating him in criminal activity and decides to frame the reporter (James Cagney) for manslaughter in order to silence him.
- The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
- Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.
- Acting as a decoy in a bank robbery Dot get arrested. But before going to jail she manages to steal the $40, 000 loot from her accomplices. Her arrest attracts the attention of her former sweetheart Ken who believes her innocent.
- The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads to a life changing punishment. Peter Madigan, a 15-year-old from the suburbs commits a senseless act, causing a commuter train to derail killing the engineer.
- The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
- An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.
- After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
- Larry Brainerd is let out of Sing Sing on parole and wants to leave his life of crime behind, but his old gang plots to "get" him.
- The work of the prison staff at Mariah State Penitentiary.
- Count Fabiano Romani, an Italian nobleman, discovers that his wife is in love with Arturo Durazzi, and shortly afterward is stricken with what appears to be cholera. The guilty couple, who have long been anxious to have the husband out of the way, bury him in the family vault of the Romani, but Count Fabiano, who was not dead, manages to escape from the tomb, and with the thought of breaking up the unfortunate affair between his wife and Arturo, disguises himself, and conceives the novel idea of winning back his wife from the man who has taken her from him. Fabiano meets Juliet by posing as a rich friend of her dead husband, and succeeds in winning her promise to marry him. Arturo, furious at discovering her fickleness, challenges Fabiano to a duel, but on the dueling ground, Fabiano reveals his real identity, and then kills Arturo. Shortly after her marriage, Juliet begs her husband to show her the hiding place of his wonderful collection of jewels and, the time for his revenge having come, Fabiano takes her, blindfolded, to the tomb in which she had imprisoned him and in one of the most powerful scenes of the photoplay, discloses to her the fact that he is her first husband. In spite of her prayers for forgiveness, he confines her in the tomb, there to await the fate which she had planned for him.
- After serving fifteen years of a twenty-year prison term for embezzlement, Joe Moore is released early for good behavior. In New York, he finds Matthew Owens and James Horton, his former business associates, and demands that they pay what they owe him. Since Moore has lost his copy of their agreement, Owens refuses, but Horton, who has raised Moore's daughter as his own, promises to pay. When Horton is found murdered, Moore is suspected. After Robert Blakemore, the fiancé of Moore's daughter, discovers Horton's copy of the agreement, it is revealed that Moore, previously the business' bookkeeper, took the blame for Owens' embezzlement in return for $25,000 and the assurance that his daughter would be cared for. Owens, in attempting to steal this money from Horton's safe, was stopped by Horton, who was then killed by Owens' hired man. Owens is imprisoned, while Moore leaves without informing his daughter of his true identity, to protect her reputation.
- Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.