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  • National Geographic
  • 1h
  • 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

3x01 Gang Wars

Season Premiere

3x01 Gang Wars

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Pelican Bay State Prison is home to some of the world's most dangerous gang members. From behind bars, leaders of gangs still run their organisations.

3x03 Iron Grip

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North Carolina's Alexander Correctional Institution is a fortress that houses some of America's most hardened criminals. Tough rules and regulations make it a prison all convicts want to avoid.

3x04 Gangland

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Rival white and Mexican gangs have turned California's Salinas Valley State Prison into a war zone. What will happen when the lockdown, imposed since two prison officers were stabbed, is lifted?

3x05 Women Behind Bars

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California's Valley State Prison houses nearly 4,000 female inmates. Enter a world riddled with drugs and danger, where hundreds of babies are born to incarcerated mums.

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