Poll: Toughest Prison to Survive

A poll by Hoekkie

Results of 921 votes:

  1. 162

    Clancy Brown, Dion Anderson, and Brian Delate in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

  2. 130

    Papillon (1973)

  3. 82

    The Road to Guantanamo (2006)

  4. 80

    Brad Davis in Midnight Express (1978)

  5. 62

    Clint Eastwood and Larry Hankin in Escape from Alcatraz (1979)

  6. 57

    Prison Break (2005)

  7. 43

    #13

  8. 41

    Arnold Schwarzenegger in Escape Plan (2013)

  9. 41

    Tom Mardirosian and George Morfogen in Oz (1997)

  10. 25

    Sylvester Stallone in Lock Up (1989)

  11. 24

    Christopher Lambert in Fortress (1992)

  12. 24

    Edward Norton

  13. 19

    Balo Bucio, Stephanie Lemelin, Blue Demon Jr., José Montini, Eileen Yañez, Antonio Zúñiga, Tenoch Huerta, Manuel Domínguez, Marco Aurelio Nava, Xochiquetzatl Rodríguez, Paloma Arredondo, Kevin Balmore, Aaron Cohen, Jeff Caughey, William Gibson, Jorge Verdugo, Carlos Ramos, Owen Dunne, Noemi Palomino, and Marco Rojas in Get the Gringo (2012)

  14. 18

    Tahar Rahim in A Prophet (2009)

  15. 18

    Paul Newman, J.D. Cannon, Richard Davalos, Wayne Rogers, and Ralph Waite in Cool Hand Luke (1967)

  16. 17

    Michael Fassbender in Hunger (2008)

  17. 12

    Jack O'Connell and Duncan Airlie James in Starred Up (2013)

  18. 12

    Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale in Brokedown Palace (1999)

  19. 11

    Laura Prepon and Taylor Schilling in Orange Is the New Black (2013)

  20. 9

    Stephen Dorff in Felon (2008)

  21. 9

    Luis Tosar in Cell 211 (2009)

  22. 5

    Clifton Collins Jr. in The Last Castle (2001)

  23. 5

    #17

  24. 5

    Sean Penn and Reni Santoni in Bad Boys (1983)

  25. 4

    Roberto Benigni, Tom Waits, and John Lurie in Down by Law (1986)

  26. 3

    #16

  27. 3

    The Hole (1960)

  28. 0

    Edward Furlong in Animal Factory (2000)

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