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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

4x01 Surviving Stateville

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Built in 1925 and aging badly, Stateville Correctional is a dangerous place filled with dangerous men, nearly all serving 20 years minimum.

Prison is hard, but getting out can be even harder. Most inmates leave with less than $200, needing a job and a bed before the cash runs out.

4x03 Bad Girls

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At the Wayne County Jail, officers and counsellors struggle to rehabilitate female offenders, including thieves, drug addicts and prostitutes.

4x04 Kids Behind Bars

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Colorado's Youthful Offender System aims to break down criminal habits and gang mentalities, from first-time convicts to street-savvy veterans.

4x05 Frontier Jail

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Even Alaska has its share of bad guys, from drunk drivers to sex offenders, robbers to murderers, and there are 12 prisons to house them.

4x06 Marked For Death

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With sex offenders making up 75 per cent of its inmates, Fremont Correctional Facility is one of Colorado's most complicated prisons.

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