Death Warrant

Death Warrant is a 1990 action movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was written by David S. Goyer while a student at USC, and was Goyer's first screenplay to be sold and produced commercially. Detective Louis Burke (Jean-Claude Van Damme) confronts a maniac called the Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick) in an abandoned house. Although the Sandman nearly kills Burke, the partner of a cop that the Sandman killed, Burke manages to stop him with a bullet. Sixteen months later, Burke joins a task force put together by the governor to investigate a series of unexplained deaths in the Harrison State Prison in California. While Burke poses as an inmate, attorney Amanda Beckett (Cynthia Gibb) acts the role of his wife. Burke and Beckett don't care for each other much in the beginning. In the penitentiary, Burke is forced to survive in an environment so dismal and filthy that it makes a public restroom in a New York City subway look like the Hilton. But though he is surrounded by... full article at wikipedia