Penitentiary III is a 1987 English-language Crime Drama motion picture directed by Jamaa Fanaka and produced by Jamaa Fanaka and Leon Isaac Kennedy under the banner of The Cannon Group. Penitentiary iii stars Leon Isaac Kennedy, Anthony Geary, Steve Antin, Ric Mancini, Marie Burrell Fanaka, Raymond Kessler and Tony Winters. The screenplay is written by Jamaa Fanaka. The music was composed by Garry Schyman. Cinematography was done by Marty Ollstein and editing by Alain Jakubowicz. The movie has a running time of 91 minutes. It was released on 4th September 1987. The motion picture made a box office gross of $1 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Cannon Film Distributors.