Zimbabwe's prisons in 2009 are running out of food, medicine, and space, and secret filming inside them over three months captures what that looks like. Former political prisoner Rory Bennett describes one meal a day and cellmates as emaciated as prisoners of war. The camera finds Brighton, 28, halfway through an 18-month sentence for robbery, now suffering severe malnutrition and tuberculosis, with a warden noting that sick inmates keep reinfecting each other. Officials cited in the film say roughly 20 prisoners die every day across the country's 55 prisons, which hold about 30,000 people, double their intended capacity. Beitbridge prison, oddly, has no overcrowding problem, because so many of its inmates have already died; a warden describes piling three bodies to a grave, and families searching through corpses in the prison laundry room to identify relatives. Authorities acknowledge the crisis and appeal to the Ministry of Finance and the Red Cross, while a human rights worker argues the real failure is one of attitude: prison, he says, was never meant to be a death sentence.