Animal Factory: resumé af filmens handling

Ronnie is a young boy with all his opportunities open, and one day the police find Mauna for 2000 dollars. He ends up in jail.

Ronnie meets Earl Copen pretty fast. Earl Copen rules the prison, he has a lot of friends and has a lot of distribute, because he talks to one of the guards. Ronnie gets help from Earl from the start, he protects him.

Ronnie is new kid in jail, and he doesn’t know about all the things that happen in jail. Rape and violence. He’s in doubt

He is in doubt Earl will help him or use him. The guards scare him! Ronnie gets a different impression from people about how he should be in prison.

One day the black makes a strike. It ends up in a fight and one of the prisoners is badly wounded, it all evolves into a huge fight as the guards will have to intervene and get order in its entirety. Chaos in the whole prison. One evening Ronnie will be sent into see Earl, because he has gotten hold of some good food at the kitchen and he says he will try to find Ronnie a job as a barber. They long for a conversation about Ronnis space in prison and how insecure he feels and Earl establishes that he stands behind his back. Ronnie will be moved to another Section in the prison, so he is the same Section as Earl. It seems to go really well for Ronnie. He gets a job, and therefore some points with the judges. He does everything to get points with the judges, so his sentence will be milder. There are really made fun of Ronnie, for example, they "rapes" him for fun, meaning that they are not doing it for real. Earl helps him as much as possible. But it is not always good enough, one day Ronnie is almost raped by another prisoner. But because he’s good friends with Earl and his gang, they want revenge on the guy who tried to rape Ronnie. Ronnie wants to take revenge himself, but Earl helps him. After the fight they found out that the guy who tried to rape Ronnie is dead. So they get suspected. Ronnie’s sentence gets extended. His dad wants him out of jail as quickly as possible, but you just can’t. Earl finds a plan so they can get out of Jail. They are fleeing by a garbage truck. When they day comes, when they are supposed to escape their planes misses. Ronnie gets out safe but Earl is stuck in jail.