Season 1
2005 · 18 episodes
Episodes
1. Inside Riverbend
June 4, 2005 · 30m
Riverbend Maximum Security Prison inmates tell their stories.
2. Return to Valley State
June 11, 2005 · 30m
Inmates of California's Valley State Prison for Women try rehabilitation.
3. Return to Rikers Island
June 18, 2005 · 30m
See how the once-infamous Rikers Island jail has reinvented itself.
4. Inside Utah State Prison
June 25, 2005 · 30m
Inside the largest maximum security facility in Salt Lake City. A "jail within a prison" protects some inmates from others.
5. Inside North Carolina Women's Prison
July 2, 2005 · 30m
Revealing of how these women deal with relationships and struggles.
6. Inside Kentucky State Penitentiary
July 9, 2005 · 30m
Behind the walls of Kentucky's only maximum security prison.
7. Inside Anamosa
July 16, 2005 · 30m
Inside the maximum security facility in Eastern Iowa.
8. Return to Pelican Bay
July 23, 2005 · 30m
One of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation.
9. Return to Corcoran
November 26, 2005 · 30m
The Corcoran State Prison, located in an isolated valley, is one of California's largest maximum-security institutions.
10. Inside Wabash
December 3, 2005 · 30m
California's Kern Valley State Prison opens its doors in 2005.
11. Inside Miami-Dade Corrections
December 10, 2005 · 30m
Miami's prison system.
12. Inside The Penitentiary of New Mexico
December 17, 2005 · 30m
13. Inside Elayn Hunt Prison
December 31, 2005 · 30m
14. The Inmate Diaries
January 7, 2006 · 30m
Oklahoma inmates tell their own remarkable stories.
15. Inside Stateville
January 14, 2006 · 30m
Half of Chicago's Stateville Correctional Center's inmates are imprisoned for murder.
16. Inside LA County Jail
January 21, 2006 · 30m
LA County Jail is a system that is overcrowded, tough on gangs, and struggling with an increase in racial violence.
17. Inside Folsom Prison
January 28, 2006 · 30m
Inside the maximum security prison inmates call 'the end of the world.'
18. Inside San Quentin
February 4, 2006 · 30m
A profile of San Quentin State Prison in California; one of the most famous, most notorious penitentiaries in the world.