He occasionally spends time outside prison on furlough fixing cars, playing American football and seeing his girlfriend Melissa.

While sleeping in his cell, guards arrive and forcibly take Leone to the violent maximum-security Gateway Prison run by Warden Drumgoole.

Not only did this incident result in five years in minimum security being added to Leone's sentence, but in Drumgoole's transfer to Gateway, a negative mark on his job record.

Aiming to force Leone to snap and compromise his position, the warden has Chink Weber kill First-Base in the gym.

For revenge, Leone attacks Chink, rendering him helpless, but before he kills him, he relents, realizing that committing such an act is precisely what Drumgoole wants.

Enraged, Leone breaks into Drumgoole's office instead of escaping, takes him to the execution chamber and straps him to the electric chair.

A judicial inquiry is made into the matter about the warden's corrupt behavior and Leone serves only the prison time required of him in the first place.

[9] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Stallone "defies credibility to the point of inviting unintended laughter.