On his first day working at the Elrice Prison Infirmary, Dr. Jack Harris knows something is very wrong. The prisoners he sees have bizarre, life-threatening symptoms. But they are more than just sick..they're dying. Meanwhile, at the headquarters of a giant corporate conglomerate that manages prison infirmaries across the country, a secret medical experiment is in progress--one that offers hope to the desperately ill and permanently injured. Yet for others it holds a new kind of horror. Searching for the truth, Jack is suddenly caught in a vast conspiracy--plunged into a nightmare world where the "advancement" of modern science forces some to make the ultimate sacrifice ... and where those who interfere never live long enough to tell about it