In the wake of a Supreme Court decision to outlaw the death penalty, California passes an initiative that designates TERMINAL ISLAND as a dumping spot for first-degree murder convicts, 40 men and 4 women, free to do what they like...except leave!  The main camp of convicts is controlled by the tyrannical Bobby, who along with Monk, rules with an iron hand, and the women are used as sex slaves.  On the other side of the island, A.J. and a group of more free-minded murderers have escaped and gone into hiding.  When A.J. and his men liberate the women from Bobby's custody, tensions mount to an all-out confrontation for control of the island!