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  • National Geographic
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  • United States
  • Documentary
Find out what goes on inside America’s most dangerous prisons. Visit the institutions where hardened criminals try to break all the rules every day and meet the prison officers who try to keep them in line. Discover the stories behind the inmates who are kept there. For some, life on the inside is all they know. For others, only thoughts of their loved ones keep them on the right track. And for those who want to go straight, their biggest challenge comes when they try to make a new life on the outside. Beginning with a guided tour of Stateville Correctional Facility, in Chicago, Illinois, by Sgt. Baldwin, a 16-year veteran. He expresses the importance of the outside world to inmates and how it keeps them sane. It turns out family, romance and friendship are the things that make life go around, even among ‘the worst of the worst’.

6 episodes

Season Premiere

2x01 Boiling Point

Season Premiere

2x01 Boiling Point

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With more thieves, drug dealers and addicts entering each month, how do under-resourced staff cope when a prison reaches breaking point?

In Utah State Prison one in four of the prisoner population has gang ties. Gangs battling gangs and extreme loyalty - but this time it's behind bars

2x03 Last Chain Gang

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Phoenix, Arizona prides itself on keeping jail costs low, making inmates labour for their upkeep in the nation's only chain gang.

Follow three new recruits as they face the challenges of officer training at the tough and isolated prison in Rawlins, Wyoming.

Ironwood Correctional Facility is set in the middle of the desert. When a riot breaks out, the 81 prisoners have some tough decisions to make.

2x06 Young And Bad

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Iowa separates its youthful offenders from their hardened adult prisons. But is housing 1,100 young convicts together a breeding ground for trouble?

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