Racing for Time is a 2008 Lifetime television film starring Charles S. Dutton, and Elizabeth Peña.
The movie is based on the accomplishments of real-life coach and prison guard Sergeant Noel Chesnut (later promoted to lieutenant and then Captain) and the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility's track team he started.
[3][4][5] Cleveland "Stack" Stackhouse (Charles S. Dutton) is a guard with the Texas Correctional Youth Authority who witnesses the cycle of destructive choices and racial tensions among female teen offenders and decides to do something about it.
He gathers African-American, Latina and Caucasian teens, and organizes a multi-racial track team behind the bars of the prison.
Participation in Stack's track team not only breaks down the racial divides between the girls, but also puts them on a path to turn their lives around.