American Crimes
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Lockup: Raw
Addiction leads prisoners to serious crime to fuel their habits.
Lockup: Long Island: Extended Stay
A young couple comes to jail after a crime spree, but their stories don't add up; one of the jail's most prolific contraband smugglers makes her return, but staff cracks down on the pipeline.
Lockup: Cincinnati: Extended Stay
An online post from a diehard Dodgers fan leads to his arrest at a Reds game; a tragic shooting leaves one inmate facing prison time and outrage over his punishment leads to more arrests.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
A low-level offender increases his sentence from 18 months to 16-and-a-half years after three separate counts of aggravated battery on an officer; the same inmate was banned from even non-contact visits after an affair with a prison staff nurse.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
The Penitentiary of New Mexico houses both low level and max-security inmates; Level 6 inmates like Chris Shiverdecker, who has a MacGyver-like prison reputation, are still eligible for hearings that could change custody level and security status.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
Inmates who become disruptive at the Penitentiary of New Mexico are transferred to the lock-up units in level 5 or 6; the trouble is, their behavior doesn't always improve; this is a lesson rookie officer Amy Lee is learning the hard way.
Lockup: Louisville: Extended Stay
A troubled young inmate, recently sentenced to prison, attempts to make a final impression on staff; a young woman who gave birth in the jail watches her baby grow up without her.
Lockup: Louisville: Extended Stay
The jail responds with force after an officer is assaulted and inmates attempt escape; an 18-year-old shoots her father to death then finds a surrogate mother on the inside.
Lockup: Tampa: Extended Stay
An inmate with suspicious tax forms becomes a problem for the jail, and a murder ends with the victim burned alive in a dumpster, pitting friends and family against each other.
Lockup: Colorado: Extended Stay
Prison is an underground economy, where some deals are signed in ink and others are signed in blood; a rare look at the schemes, hustles and extortions conducted behind prison walls and the consequences they carry.
Lockup
Inmates at Tennessee Prison For Women gain career skills by taking part in a cosmetology program.
Lockup: Orange County: Extended Stay
Inside the Orange County Jail a senior inmate takes up rap; a gang member poses a threat; another inmate makes the most shocking confession ever heard on Lockup.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
Prison officials initiate a shakedown after gang members in Level 6 overpower an officer in the recreation area, take her keys and stab a rival gang member; this type of incident simply adds to the tension already felt in the supermax facility.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
For some inmates, the only way out of prison is "paroling legit," or leaving in a body bag; others earn a lump sum of good time by completing programs or holding a prison job, while a few will take any chance to try to escape.
Lockup: Louisville: Extended Stay
A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.
Lockup: Wabash: Extended Stay
With over 2,000 inmates, the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility has a larger population and more acreage than the small town in which it's located; after a decade in confinement, one of Indiana's most infamous inmates moves to general population.
Lockup: Wabash: Extended Stay
The killer of a corrections officer fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary confinement, and boyhood friends struggle to parent their kids from behind prison walls; but one, cut-off from visits with his son, is on a razor's edge.
Lockup: Oakland: Extended Stay
A celebrity rapper enters the Santa Rita jail, but his arrest leaves a heartbroken girlfriend behind; two brothers deal with gangs, drugs and parenthood and a three-time convicted murderer claims he's killed others as well.
Lockup: Oakland: Extended Stay
A celebrity rapper enters the Santa Rita jail, but his arrest leaves a heartbroken girlfriend behind; two brothers deal with gangs, drugs and parenthood and a three-time convicted murderer claims he's killed others as well.
Lockup: Colorado: Extended Stay
Prison is an underground economy, where some deals are signed in ink and others are signed in blood; a rare look at the schemes, hustles and extortions conducted behind prison walls and the consequences they carry.
Lockup
Inmates at Tennessee Prison For Women gain career skills by taking part in a cosmetology program.
Lockup: Orange County: Extended Stay
Inside the Orange County Jail a senior inmate takes up rap; a gang member poses a threat; another inmate makes the most shocking confession ever heard on Lockup.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
Prison officials initiate a shakedown after gang members in Level 6 overpower an officer in the recreation area, take her keys and stab a rival gang member; this type of incident simply adds to the tension already felt in the supermax facility.
Lockup: New Mexico: Extended Stay
For some inmates, the only way out of prison is "paroling legit," or leaving in a body bag; others earn a lump sum of good time by completing programs or holding a prison job, while a few will take any chance to try to escape.
Lockup: Louisville: Extended Stay
A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.
Lockup: Wabash: Extended Stay
With over 2,000 inmates, the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility has a larger population and more acreage than the small town in which it's located; after a decade in confinement, one of Indiana's most infamous inmates moves to general population.
Lockup: Wabash: Extended Stay
The killer of a corrections officer fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary confinement, and boyhood friends struggle to parent their kids from behind prison walls; but one, cut-off from visits with his son, is on a razor's edge.
American Greed
Philanthropist, diplomat, international man of mystery, and criminal Dr Henry Jones led a double-life that was unknown to all he knew.
American Greed
Scott Rothstein, a Ft. Lauderdale attorney making millions, is the life of the party and a guy who wants the world to love him, while also secretly playing the part of criminal mastermind.
American Greed
Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman that she's in their corner.
American Greed
When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked card skimming plots are exposed.
American Greed
CEO Jacob Kingston appears to be a rising star in Utah's fledgling biofuel industry, until a member of a secretive polygamist group called The Order reveals that Kingston is committing a 1.1 billion dollar fraud.
American Greed
While an estimated $100 billion in COVID relief funds is stolen, this seasoned family of fraudsters easily grabs millions of dollars Americans desperately need to buy themselves mansions, jewelry and gold.
American Greed
A financial fraudster seeks deadly revenge after being placed behind bars for propositioning his assistant's daughter.
American Greed
A man is convicted of wire fraud and money laundering after claiming to sell coffee futures.
American Greed
Construction workers unwittingly foot the bill for Melissa King's lifestyle; a smooth-talking ladies-man creates a phony gold scheme.
American Greed
A school supply vendor steals millions from Detroit public schools by enlisting shady school officials; crooks use photos of real military men to lure women into sending them love and money.
American Greed
Construction workers unwittingly foot the bill for Melissa King's lifestyle; a smooth-talking ladies-man creates a phony gold scheme.
American Greed
A school supply vendor steals millions from Detroit public schools by enlisting shady school officials; crooks use photos of real military men to lure women into sending them love and money.
American Greed
Philanthropist, diplomat, international man of mystery, and criminal Dr Henry Jones led a double-life that was unknown to all he knew.
American Greed
Scott Rothstein, a Ft. Lauderdale attorney making millions, is the life of the party and a guy who wants the world to love him, while also secretly playing the part of criminal mastermind.
American Greed
Well-heeled financial advisor Peggy Ann Fulford builds a cache of all-star clients and a personal fortune by convincing A-list players like Dennis Rodman that she's in their corner.
American Greed
When a judge in Texas is shot four times, a tip leads investigators to Chimene Onyeri, an aspiring Houston rap artist facing prison after his crooked card skimming plots are exposed.
American Greed
CEO Jacob Kingston appears to be a rising star in Utah's fledgling biofuel industry, until a member of a secretive polygamist group called The Order reveals that Kingston is committing a 1.1 billion dollar fraud.
American Greed
While an estimated $100 billion in COVID relief funds is stolen, this seasoned family of fraudsters easily grabs millions of dollars Americans desperately need to buy themselves mansions, jewelry and gold.
American Greed
A financial fraudster seeks deadly revenge after being placed behind bars for propositioning his assistant's daughter.
American Greed
A man is convicted of wire fraud and money laundering after claiming to sell coffee futures.
American Greed
From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial adviser Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20 million scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.
American Greed
A thieving shopaholic son murders his family to cash in on the family's wealth; a Chicago health facility owner uses an inflated billing scheme in a $20 million rip off.
American Greed
An Iowa man rigs a $16.5 million lottery jackpot, triggering the biggest lottery scam in American history; notorious New York City landlord Steven Croman finds a new home in jail.
American Greed
A new age evangelist tells Florida investors that positive thinking can lead to positive returns in her auto financing business; a man steals millions to build a luxurious doomsday bunker.
American Greed
An "asset protection" guru steals millions from the famous, elderly and sick; he makes money disappear in a Ponzi scheme.
American Greed
A group of hackers live it up and decide to get rich or die trying.
American Greed
Zachary Horwitz has dreams of making it big in Hollywood; while his onscreen career never quite flourishes, Horwitz acts his way into raising more than $600 million for an investment opportunity that is completely bogus.
American Greed
Purported entrepreneur Antonio Mariot Wilson changes his name, pitch, and act to play a series of roles, and the inveterate huckster fleeces unsuspecting investors for decades, including television star Jenifer Lewis.
American Greed
A former weatherman claiming to be an undercover spy infiltrates Washington's intelligence circles where he collects millions with his tales of running a top-secret national security operation for the CIA.
American Greed
The Broadway premiere of "Rebecca" implodes thanks to New York stockbroker Mark Hotton, who allegedly swindles millions of dollars from investors.
American Greed
Purported entrepreneur Antonio Mariot Wilson changes his name, pitch, and act to play a series of roles, and the inveterate huckster fleeces unsuspecting investors for decades, including television star Jenifer Lewis.