Married Behind Bars examined what it's like when women on the outside decide to marry men on the inside in US prisons. An alternative look at the ‘happy day’ featuring prison issue dress code, x-ray machines and bullet-proof glass. The film followed three American brides who decided to tie the knot with their other half inside. In San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Nancy prepares to marry her gang member boyfriend; in Ohio ex-convict Kristen is getting hitched to fiancé Jesse who is serving five years for armed robbery; in Texas, April waits for news of the eighth appeal for the release of her childhood crush, and now husband, Shawn.