A convicted sex offender becomes the victim of a brutal assault that leaves him unconscious and in the hospital his assailants say the attack was warranted, but what they don't know might bring regret.
One inmate's troubled past leads to angry outbursts inside the jail, while another arrives after an alleged crime spree that sounds like it's right out of a movie a young mother could go to prison if she's found guilty of robbery.
An infamous inmate is booked after a daring prison escape, but faces consequences that go well beyond what a judge could give him Lockup tells the story of a criminal legend, his family and the devastating consequences of his decisions.
A convicted sex offender becomes the victim of a brutal assault that leaves him unconscious and in the hospital his assailants say the attack was warranted, but what they don't know might bring regret.
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.
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.
The vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells but even with careful screening, conflicts can still arise between cell mates one inmate covers up his own beating, and plucked from death row, another inmate tries to make a difference.
Indiana's Wabash Valley Correctional Facility is an isolated fortress with three officers for every 200 inmates some inmates find themselves in racial conflict, while others seek conflict elsewhere.
A jailhouse assault leads to one bloody inmate, and two sides to the story another inmate makes a daring escape one of the jail's most violent inmates decides it's time for a change.
Five miles from the riverfront hotels and restaurants of Savannah, Georgia, is a more ominous site, a place where an inmate is severely injured and a friendship is torn two soon to be brothers-in-law are accused of double homicide.
Indiana's Wabash Valley Correctional Facility is an isolated fortress with three officers for every 200 inmates some inmates find themselves in racial conflict, while others seek conflict elsewhere.
In San Antonio, Texas, rival gangs shed blood in a power struggle to control a wide range of criminal activity including drugs, prostitution and human trafficking this turf war has expanded from the streets to inside the walls of Bexar County Jail.
The arrest of two brothers in the murders of four women.
A murderous shooting spree erupts on a major religious holiday a new inmate catches the jail staff's attention a father of five receives haunting news from home.
A pregnant woman faces the charge of killing her husband two months away from giving birth her future lies in the hands of a judge another inmate, also facing a murder charge, pays a price when he disobeys orders.
An inmate with an influential family in one gang, joins its arch rival a female inmate who has ties to both gangs finds her mail has jail officials concerned.
Former gang members attempt to leave deadly rivalries behind, then the men in another housing unit deal with a completely different set of issues a surprise contraband raid turns one housing unit upside down.
An inmate causes chaos in his housing unit after accusing staff of abusing him, and he explodes in anger when a valued possession is taken from his cell accused of a vicious vigilante-style murder, another inmate says jail has saved his own life.
A two-on-one assault leaves an inmate bloodied and injured, but getting to the bottom of this fight requires some digging a popular restaurateur, accused of capitol murder, fights for his freedom.
Gang members disrupt a housing unit, and when inmates flood their cells, the Special Emergency Response Team, or SERT, takes action, placing one inmate in special restraints a female inmate poses a dangerous threat to staff.