It was written by Hillcoat, Evan English, Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, and Hugo Race.

A committee is appointed by the prison's governors to investigate the cause of the outbreak, but their findings are in stark contrast to the facts behind the riot.

The script was based on the book In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry Abbott and research done with David Hale, a former prison guard at Marion, Illinois.

We are the future" has been sampled by Future Sound of London in their song "Central Industrial" on their Accelerator album;[4] also sampled by Woob in their song "Void, Part One" on the album em:t 0094,[5] and by Jam and Spoon in their remix of Moby's "Go".

opened the song "Nausea" (the first one on their 1992 album Nurse) with a sample of Nick Cave shouting "Here I am, motherfuckers!"