American Crimes

From penthouse apartments to a $10 million stadium luxury box, financial adviser Dawn Bennett orchestrates a $20 million scheme and conjures spells to silence investigators.

Billy McFarland organizes the Fyre Festival in the Bahamas, selling thousands of tickets on the strength of a social media pitch that results in a disastrous music event that goes up in smoke.

Using a form of integration at Indiana State that goes beyond race, the Residential Treatment Unit selects inmates with a history of good behavior to live with and serve as mentors to inmates with mental health issues.

In a world dictated by fear, some resort to violence, and others become victims, while those on death row at Indiana State Prison can only wait for the inevitable.

A new inmate fears the worst; a gang member asks for help to change his life, but first he must convince a staff member with plenty of his own experience on the inside.

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 arrest of two brothers in the murders of four women.

A surprise attack on a sheriff's deputy takes an unexpected turn, a convicted rapist loses his cool in court and an accused murderer in a high profile case tries to cash in on her notoriety.

One inmate's stress prompts an emergency response; a repeat offender is charged with beating her mother, and now must rely on her own daughter for support; an inmate known for his brawn decides to focus on his brain.

Police take a young man into custody following the murder of a 15-year-old boy in his Louisville, Ky., home; the jail finds itself with a multitude of related high-profile cases.

At San Quentin, every inmate is marked with a security level based on his crime and prison behavior; serving as a reception center, the overpopulated prison must house a dangerous mix of levels within proximity of one another.

Using a form of integration at Indiana State that goes beyond race, the Residential Treatment Unit selects inmates with a history of good behavior to live with and serve as mentors to inmates with mental health issues.

In a world dictated by fear, some resort to violence, and others become victims, while those on death row at Indiana State Prison can only wait for the inevitable.

A new inmate fears the worst; a gang member asks for help to change his life, but first he must convince a staff member with plenty of his own experience on the inside.

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 arrest of two brothers in the murders of four women.

A surprise attack on a sheriff's deputy takes an unexpected turn, a convicted rapist loses his cool in court and an accused murderer in a high profile case tries to cash in on her notoriety.

One inmate's stress prompts an emergency response; a repeat offender is charged with beating her mother, and now must rely on her own daughter for support; an inmate known for his brawn decides to focus on his brain.

Police take a young man into custody following the murder of a 15-year-old boy in his Louisville, Ky., home; the jail finds itself with a multitude of related high-profile cases.

At San Quentin, every inmate is marked with a security level based on his crime and prison behavior; serving as a reception center, the overpopulated prison must house a dangerous mix of levels within proximity of one another.

Using a form of integration at Indiana State that goes beyond race, the Residential Treatment Unit selects inmates with a history of good behavior to live with and serve as mentors to inmates with mental health issues.

In a world dictated by fear, some resort to violence, and others become victims, while those on death row at Indiana State Prison can only wait for the inevitable.

A new inmate fears the worst; a gang member asks for help to change his life, but first he must convince a staff member with plenty of his own experience on the inside.

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 arrest of two brothers in the murders of four women.

A surprise attack on a sheriff's deputy takes an unexpected turn, a convicted rapist loses his cool in court and an accused murderer in a high profile case tries to cash in on her notoriety.