America's Hardest Prisons
The critically acclaimed documentary prison series returns with six more gripping episodes. Penetrating the otherwise off-limits culture of prison life, America’s Hardest Prisons finds all the extremes between crime and punishment: the unrepentant gangsters, the disavowed criminals, the convicts just trying to do their time and the officers tasked with the care and keeping of this group of violent societal misfits.
Witness ‘Tent City’ in
Last Chain Gang, where overcrowding has caused inmates to be housed in tents as they survive the extreme desert elements. It even has a special team of officers to patrol this city of criminals. Costs are kept low by making prisoners work on the chain gang for their keep.
Meet the new staff recruits at Wyoming State Penitentiary, who need to learn the ropes quickly if they’re to stand a chance of keeping the jail’s murderers, rapists and child molesters in line in
Outnumbered and Alone. From the young offenders battling to get their lives back on track in
Young and Bad to the gang members continuing their violent lifestyles from within prison in
Deadly Allegiance, this eye-opening series pulls no punches.
In
School of Hard Knocks inmates risk their lives every day in order to try and better themselves and study for qualifications. Can they stay out of trouble amidst the violent race riots and make it to graduation? Finally,
Boiling Point takes a look inside the Multnomah Detention Centre, where overcrowding results in existing prisoners being released every day to make room for the more serious offenders who are constantly arriving.