Lockup
The crew's take on being in prisons and jails across the U.S. and the world for over a decade.
The crew's take on being in prisons and jails across the U.S. and the world for over a decade.
A look at female inmates that start off socializing, but end up creating a lot drama for the staff.
Life inside the Cuyahoga County Correction Center members of the jail's most predatory gang set their sights on vulnerable prey an inmate suffers an apparent breakdown.
Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana.
The inmates at Indiana's Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility aren't sentenced in terms of years they get out when they achieve certain goals, no matter how long that takes.
Life inside the Cuyahoga County Correction Center members of the jail's most predatory gang set their sights on vulnerable prey an inmate suffers an apparent breakdown.
Angola Penitentiary in Louisiana.
The inmates at Indiana's Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility aren't sentenced in terms of years they get out when they achieve certain goals, no matter how long that takes.
Correctional officers are outnumbered 10 to 1 and are constantly searching over 1,000 inmates to find their home-made weapons, which are very easy to conceal hours after the Lock Up crew wraps shooting, an inmate is stabbed in the honor dorm.
Of the nearly 1,000 inmates at Holman, the 200 most dangerous must be segregated from the rest Bobby Gilbert, or "Snake", has spent 19 of his 43 years in the solitary confinement of Ad Seg. because of his violent behavior.
Grantt Culliver, warden of one of Alabama's toughest prisons, Holman Correctional Facility, doesn't miss a beat in getting into a disruptive inmate's face, but he's also compassionate and gentle when the situation calls for it.
Before any inmate sees the inside of a prison, he has most likely first seen the inside of a jail nnothing about jail is for the faint of heart for some, jail is the ultimate limbo between freedom and a life behind bars or even worse.
The crew's take on being in prisons and jails across the U.S. and the world for over a decade.
Grantt Culliver, warden of one of Alabama's toughest prisons, Holman Correctional Facility, doesn't miss a beat in getting into a disruptive inmate's face, but he's also compassionate and gentle when the situation calls for it.
Solitary confinement is one of the most common methods for disciplining inmates, but it's also a very controversial issue.
The tenth floor of Cuyahoga County Correction Center contains the Special Response Team, or SERT, a tactical unit trained in the use of riot gear, non-lethal weapons and controlling high-risk inmates.
In the Cuyahoga Country Correction Center's intake department an out-of-control inmate creates chaos an inmate who has spent 24 years on Death Row may be facing freedom.
An inmate with a reputation for trouble goes up against a no-nonsense warden a 71-year-old woman faces conviction for an investment scheme that left nearly 800 victims in its wake segregating identical twins.
The Cuyahoga County Correction Center resides in the heart of Cleveland's downtown a tip leads to an escape plot a shank turns up in the kitchen a younger inmate takes a swing at an officer.
Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex-leader of a white supremacist gang faces a whole new reality, and discovers the price for coming clean.