There are scenes in which a racist inmate and prison guard use racist and discriminatory language (for example, 'n**ger', 'towelhead', 'spic', 'faggot'). Racism and discrimination is not condoned by the film as a whole.
There is strong language ('motherf**ker', 'f**k'), as well as milder terms (for example, 'prick', 'bitch', 'whore', 'slut', 'son of a bitch', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'God', 'damn', 'hell').
There is brief sight of a man's heavily cut and bloodstained leg following an explosion. In another scene, there is close up on a burned man's blistered and bloody face and arms.
In one scene, a prison guard is deliberately set on fire. In another scene, a man is shot, with blood in the aftermath of violence.
A man attempts suicide. There is also moderate threat, some sex references, drug references and brief male buttock nudity in a non-sexual context.