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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’.

5 episodes

Season Premiere

5x01 Chaos Control

Season Premiere

5x01 Chaos Control

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Drunk drivers, drug dealers, petty thieves and killers make trouble for themselves and officers processing them in St Louis County Jail's open central booking area, before they're assigned to cells.

Behind the big electric fence at one Colorado prison, inmates have resorted to classic convict behaviour. Gangs and other illegal activities flourish here, posing serious problems for officers.

5x03 Mexican Lockdown

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Just south of the US-Mexico border, notorious Mexican prison Cedes houses a number of criminals linked to dangerous and influential drug cartels.

5x04 Judgement Day

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Meet the officers trying to protect Cuyahoga County Jail from the spread of the Heartless Felons – one of Ohio's deadliest prison gangs.

Go inside one of America’s most dangerous prisons where hardened criminals may be female, but it's just as difficult to keep them in line.

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