America's Hardest Prisons

Find out what goes on inside America’s most dangerous prisons. Visit the institutions where hardened criminals try to break all the rules every day and meet the prison officers who try to keep them in line. Discover the stories behind the inmates who are kept there. For some, life on the inside is all they know. For others, only thoughts of their loved ones keep them on the right track. And for those who want to go straight, their biggest challenge comes when they try to make a new life on the outside. Beginning with a guided tour of Stateville Correctional Facility, in Chicago, Illinois, by Sgt. Baldwin, a 16-year veteran. He expresses the importance of the outside world to inmates and how it keeps them sane. It turns out family, romance and friendship are the things that make life go around, even among ‘the worst of the worst’.


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  • Lockdown
English suomi
  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 85564
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired May 7, 2006
  • Recent May 7, 2006
  • Airs Monday, at 10:30am
  • Network National Geographic
  • Average Runtime 60 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
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  • Created March 19, 2009 by
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  • Modified February 2, 2024 by
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Specials 1
Season 1 May 2006 8
Season 2 6
Season 3 6
Season 4 6
Season 5 5
Season 6 5
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 37
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Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 37

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