American Crimes

A troubled young inmate, recently sentenced to prison, attempts to make a final impression on staff; a young woman who gave birth in the jail watches her baby grow up without her.

The jail responds with force after an officer is assaulted and inmates attempt escape; an 18-year-old shoots her father to death then finds a surrogate mother on the inside.

An inmate with suspicious tax forms becomes a problem for the jail, and a murder ends with the victim burned alive in a dumpster, pitting friends and family against each other.

Addiction leads prisoners to serious crime to fuel their habits.

A young couple comes to jail after a crime spree, but their stories don't add up; one of the jail's most prolific contraband smugglers makes her return, but staff cracks down on the pipeline.

An online post from a diehard Dodgers fan leads to his arrest at a Reds game; a tragic shooting leaves one inmate facing prison time and outrage over his punishment leads to more arrests.

Prison is an underground economy, where some deals are signed in ink and others are signed in blood; a rare look at the schemes, hustles and extortions conducted behind prison walls and the consequences they carry.

Inmates at Tennessee Prison For Women gain career skills by taking part in a cosmetology program.

Inside the Orange County Jail a senior inmate takes up rap; a gang member poses a threat; another inmate makes the most shocking confession ever heard on Lockup.

Prison officials initiate a shakedown after gang members in Level 6 overpower an officer in the recreation area, take her keys and stab a rival gang member; this type of incident simply adds to the tension already felt in the supermax facility.

For some inmates, the only way out of prison is "paroling legit," or leaving in a body bag; others earn a lump sum of good time by completing programs or holding a prison job, while a few will take any chance to try to escape.

A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.

With over 2,000 inmates, the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility has a larger population and more acreage than the small town in which it's located; after a decade in confinement, one of Indiana's most infamous inmates moves to general population.

The killer of a corrections officer fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary confinement, and boyhood friends struggle to parent their kids from behind prison walls; but one, cut-off from visits with his son, is on a razor's edge.

A celebrity rapper enters the Santa Rita jail, but his arrest leaves a heartbroken girlfriend behind; two brothers deal with gangs, drugs and parenthood and a three-time convicted murderer claims he's killed others as well.

Prison is an underground economy, where some deals are signed in ink and others are signed in blood; a rare look at the schemes, hustles and extortions conducted behind prison walls and the consequences they carry.

Inmates at Tennessee Prison For Women gain career skills by taking part in a cosmetology program.

Inside the Orange County Jail a senior inmate takes up rap; a gang member poses a threat; another inmate makes the most shocking confession ever heard on Lockup.

Prison officials initiate a shakedown after gang members in Level 6 overpower an officer in the recreation area, take her keys and stab a rival gang member; this type of incident simply adds to the tension already felt in the supermax facility.

For some inmates, the only way out of prison is "paroling legit," or leaving in a body bag; others earn a lump sum of good time by completing programs or holding a prison job, while a few will take any chance to try to escape.

A repeat offender smuggles in contraband and an inmate becomes a marked man after murdering a Louisville rap star; a prescription pill epidemic takes its toll on the jail and drug use on the inside could keep another inmate from leaving.

With over 2,000 inmates, the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility has a larger population and more acreage than the small town in which it's located; after a decade in confinement, one of Indiana's most infamous inmates moves to general population.

The killer of a corrections officer fights to be freed from 16 years of solitary confinement, and boyhood friends struggle to parent their kids from behind prison walls; but one, cut-off from visits with his son, is on a razor's edge.

A celebrity rapper enters the Santa Rita jail, but his arrest leaves a heartbroken girlfriend behind; two brothers deal with gangs, drugs and parenthood and a three-time convicted murderer claims he's killed others as well.

Prison is an underground economy, where some deals are signed in ink and others are signed in blood; a rare look at the schemes, hustles and extortions conducted behind prison walls and the consequences they carry.

Inmates at Tennessee Prison For Women gain career skills by taking part in a cosmetology program.

Inside the Orange County Jail a senior inmate takes up rap; a gang member poses a threat; another inmate makes the most shocking confession ever heard on Lockup.

Prison officials initiate a shakedown after gang members in Level 6 overpower an officer in the recreation area, take her keys and stab a rival gang member; this type of incident simply adds to the tension already felt in the supermax facility.

For some inmates, the only way out of prison is "paroling legit," or leaving in a body bag; others earn a lump sum of good time by completing programs or holding a prison job, while a few will take any chance to try to escape.