Plot summary
When prison guard Taylor Kenna ( Charles Borland ) is murdered in his apartment building two weeks before he is due to transfer to the Fire Department, Eames and Goren investigate his workplace. They encounter Mike Logan (special guest star Chris Noth ), a Staten Island detective who happens to be dating the nurse at the prison, Gina Lowe ( Arija Bareikis ). Logan joins the duo to find out what is happening at the prison and they uncover that undocumented Federal prisoners have been held without charge on suspicion of terrorism and are being starved and brutalized by a group of prison guards led by Unit Counselor Kurt Plumm ( Wayne Duvall ).
During a prison lockdown, Logan, Goren and nurse Lowe are cornered by Plumm and his team, but Goren manages to talk them out of attacking them and the guilty guards are taken into custody. This episode was inspired by the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal.
Credits
Adapted from Wikipedia contributors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 4. HTML formatting and reference markers removed.