In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die ...

Based on car combat encompassing a series of films and other media centered on a reality show set in a prison, where inmates race against each other in order to win their freedom.

Convicted cop killer Carl "Luke" Lucas, a.k.a. Frankenstein, is a superstar driver in the brutal prison yard demolition derby known as the Death Race. Only one victory away from winning freedom ...