Lennie James stars in this hard-hitting drama about the daily struggle for survival in HMP Mandrake, a men's prison. Lee Kingley has been sentence to ten years for a firearms offence and grievous bodily harm. The truth is, he was protecting a member of his family from a violent criminal. When his appeal is turned down, he manifests his anger by getting ejected from the drugs-free unit and transferred to the main prison, HMP Mandrake. The prison staff and his fellow inmates prove a different battleground as Lee continues to fight to prove his innocence. Uncompromising and grim, this award-winning drama compellingly presents the brutal reality of the British prison system. From friendship, jealousy, threats and stabbings to sexual assault and suicide, all prison life is here, at it's most extreme. Created by Jimmy Gardner, Robert Jones and Kath Mattock who collaborated on the BAFTA-winning BBC series The Cops Directed by BAFTA winner Morag McKinnon (Home) Starring Lennie James, Stephen Walters (Layer Cake), Connor McIntyre (Coronation Street) and Jane Hazlegrove (Casualty).