The price of crime is often paid by the most innocent, by creativity wasted on destructive ends, but some inmates are determined to better themselves and adapt to life in prison.
Producers offer candid interviews and previously unaired footage of some of the most hardcore prison stories.
Using inmates to turn troubled teens away from a life of crime inmates express their regrets.
A U.S. Marine violates the code and now faces a murder charge a would-be soccer mom takes up with a violent street gang an openly gay inmate adheres to the convict code and pays the price.
Producers offer candid interviews and previously unaired footage of some of the most hardcore prison stories.
Using inmates to turn troubled teens away from a life of crime inmates express their regrets.
A U.S. Marine violates the code and now faces a murder charge a would-be soccer mom takes up with a violent street gang an openly gay inmate adheres to the convict code and pays the price.
How gangs are managed in the jail system how family relationships affect the jail experience.
A self-described white supremacist may not be who he says he is and that could make him a marked man among other white supremacists another inmate attempts to hide the true nature of his recent conviction.
The communities in Fairfax County, Virginia, have become some of the wealthiest and fastest growing in the nation, due in part to low crime rates, and, as one deputy says, taking care of the "little things" so "you don't have the big things."
A gang member with a violent past and a long disciplinary record in jail tries to convince staff he's changed another inmate, once a victim of prison rape, lobbies to do his time in isolation.
To their victims, they were epitome of terror and the face of their nightmares five of the most notorious inmates to ever appear on Lockup reveal startling insights into their shocking brands of predatory behavior.
The communities in Fairfax County, Virginia, have become some of the wealthiest and fastest growing in the nation, due in part to low crime rates, and, as one deputy says, taking care of the "little things" so "you don't have the big things."
A gang member with a violent past and a long disciplinary record in jail tries to convince staff he's changed another inmate, once a victim of prison rape, lobbies to do his time in isolation.
Just weeks away from completing his sentence, an inmate is accused of murdering his cellie a large woman with a personality to match loses everything to meth an inmate causes a disturbance on the jail's transfer bus.
The Emergency Response Team is deployed when a mentally ill inmate soils his cell and refuses orders a vicious assault sends another inmate to the hospital a fresh face joins the female unit, and finds herself in the middle of an investigation.
A fight breaks out over snacks but officers want to know if there was something else behind it an open transgender inmate, who "escorts" on the street, chooses general population over protective custody an inmate is found dead in his bunk.
The jail's Special Operations Group is called in to deal with a difficult inmate a well-known inmate returns to jail, but this time, he's in with his girlfriend, who might be harboring a secret that could dramatically affect both their lives.
An agitated inmate takes severe measures to get staff's attention a young first-timer is found unconscious in his cell another inmate garners "enemy status" within the jail.
The survivor of a vicious attack shares his story in the hopes that other inmates will never commit such violence for another inmate, it's too late to turn back the clock and now the pain of incarceration has begun to take a toll.