Civil Brand is a movie starring Da Brat, Mos Def, LisaRaye McCoy, and Monica Calhoun made in 2002. It deals with abuse in a women's prison facility.
The name "Civil Brand" is a play on words for a real prison facility in Los Angeles named Sybil Brand Institute.
Women prisoners strike up a friendship with a young law student who works as a part-time prison guard. Together they discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their "slave labor", the women take over the prison - A rare glimpse of the effects of the prison industrial complex on female inmates. Written by L. J. Allen-2 (Leslye Allen)
