While minding his own busniess, Devon Miles is pulled over in a small town for a minor traffic violation but the officers add "resisting arrest" to the charges and toss him in the slammer. Soon Devon's contact, Frank Reston, an investigative reporter, is brought in for a drunk and disorderly. Devon learns that Reston is about to bust the county's Judge Paxton on a corruption scheme, but soon Reston is taken away and eliminated. Paxton believes Devon is a potential witness and quietly transfers him to the state prison.