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). Series two continues to trace Helen s progress following her high-profile and controversial appointment as governor of Barfield Prison a troubled institution which has been partially rebuilt following recent rioting. The situation within the prison remains highly volatile; this series sees Helen... negotiating in a traumatic hostage crisis, while among Barfield's 700 inmates is new arrival Tarzan one of Britain's most dangerous men. And Helen is to face her toughest challenge when the staging of the prisoners musical provides the perfect cover for a prison breakout by some of Barfield's most violent top-security inmates... [show more]
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All six episodes from the second series of the Lynda La Plante thriller, set in a maximum security prison. Janet McTeer plays Helen Hewitt, the youngest ever female warden to be placed in charge of a maximum security prison for men. Hewitt attempts to assert her authority in what, traditionally, has very much been a man's world, while at the same time trying to deal with the many day-to-day problems of running the prison. In this series, Helen has to deal with a hostage situation and the transfer of one of Britain's most dangerous criminals to Barfield Prison, not to mention a security breach that sees some of the prison's high security inmates set loose...
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