Season 1
18 episodes · 2005
1Inside Riverbend
Riverbend Maximum Security Prison inmates tell their stories.
2Return to Valley State
Inmates of California's Valley State Prison for Women try rehabilitation.
3Return to Rikers Island
See how the once-infamous Rikers Island jail has reinvented itself.
4Inside Utah State Prison
Inside the largest maximum security facility in Salt Lake City. A "jail within a prison" protects some inmates from others.
5Inside North Carolina Women's Prison
Revealing of how these women deal with relationships and struggles.
6Inside Kentucky State Penitentiary
Behind the walls of Kentucky's only maximum security prison.
7Inside Anamosa
Inside the maximum security facility in Eastern Iowa.
8Return to Pelican Bay
One of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation.
9Return to Corcoran
The Corcoran State Prison, located in an isolated valley, is one of California's largest maximum-security institutions.
10Inside Wabash
California's Kern Valley State Prison opens its doors in 2005.
11Inside Miami-Dade Corrections
Miami's prison system.
14The Inmate Diaries
Oklahoma inmates tell their own remarkable stories.
15Inside Stateville
Half of Chicago's Stateville Correctional Center's inmates are imprisoned for murder.
16Inside LA County Jail
LA County Jail is a system that is overcrowded, tough on gangs, and struggling with an increase in racial violence.
17Inside Folsom Prison
Inside the maximum security prison inmates call 'the end of the world.'
18Inside San Quentinfinale
A profile of San Quentin State Prison in California; one of the most famous, most notorious penitentiaries in the world.