Three disgraced former judges are doing time in a Florida federal prison: one for tax evasion, another for skimming bingo profits, and the third for a career-ending, drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, these judges-turned-felons use their time in prison to fine-tune a brilliant extortion scam. Though events outside their prison walls are beginning to erupt, the judges have found the perfect victim, or so they think.