American Crimes

A once $100 million publishing fortune creates tension between mother and son when he's accused of squandering millions on sex, diamonds and fraud.

A former bank robber makes millions by promoting musicians; a man's fake fine wine storage business.

Violence often seems inevitable in prison; whether it stems from racial tension, or a dispute between cellmates, it's the job of Corcoran's officers to prevent attacks; in doing so, however, they put their own lives on the line.

At the Penitentiary of New Mexico, officers are outnumbered, and the inmates are unpredictable, especially in Level 6, the maximum-security facility; it's where the deputy warden says "the worst of the worst" are housed.

If personal relationships can get complicated on the outside, they can be even more complicated behind bars; for those unable to cope with them, relationships can lead to a life in prison.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex-leader of a white supremacist gang faces a whole new reality, and discovers the price for coming clean.

In prison WTF stands for workouts, tattoos and food.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex leader of a gang faces a whole new reality he discovers the price for coming clean.

Behind every murder is a motive; Behind every murder is a story and behind some murders, there is a person someone thought they could trust.

Burnout is a constant problem and unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility; that means that designated jobs, like cell searches, which each shift has a requirement to perform, don't always get done.

Inside Corcoran, survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike, whether it's inmates treading the dangerous waters of racial politics; or officers keeping themselves and the population safe by tracking down cell-made weapons.

Violence often seems inevitable in prison; whether it stems from racial tension, or a dispute between cellmates, it's the job of Corcoran's officers to prevent attacks; in doing so, however, they put their own lives on the line.

At the Penitentiary of New Mexico, officers are outnumbered, and the inmates are unpredictable, especially in Level 6, the maximum-security facility; it's where the deputy warden says "the worst of the worst" are housed.

If personal relationships can get complicated on the outside, they can be even more complicated behind bars; for those unable to cope with them, relationships can lead to a life in prison.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex-leader of a white supremacist gang faces a whole new reality, and discovers the price for coming clean.

In prison WTF stands for workouts, tattoos and food.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex leader of a gang faces a whole new reality he discovers the price for coming clean.

Behind every murder is a motive; Behind every murder is a story and behind some murders, there is a person someone thought they could trust.

Burnout is a constant problem and unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility; that means that designated jobs, like cell searches, which each shift has a requirement to perform, don't always get done.

Inside Corcoran, survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike, whether it's inmates treading the dangerous waters of racial politics; or officers keeping themselves and the population safe by tracking down cell-made weapons.

Violence often seems inevitable in prison; whether it stems from racial tension, or a dispute between cellmates, it's the job of Corcoran's officers to prevent attacks; in doing so, however, they put their own lives on the line.

At the Penitentiary of New Mexico, officers are outnumbered, and the inmates are unpredictable, especially in Level 6, the maximum-security facility; it's where the deputy warden says "the worst of the worst" are housed.

If personal relationships can get complicated on the outside, they can be even more complicated behind bars; for those unable to cope with them, relationships can lead to a life in prison.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex-leader of a white supremacist gang faces a whole new reality, and discovers the price for coming clean.

In prison WTF stands for workouts, tattoos and food.

Sometimes life has other plans, like when the ex leader of a gang faces a whole new reality he discovers the price for coming clean.

Behind every murder is a motive; Behind every murder is a story and behind some murders, there is a person someone thought they could trust.

Burnout is a constant problem and unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility; that means that designated jobs, like cell searches, which each shift has a requirement to perform, don't always get done.

Inside Corcoran, survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike, whether it's inmates treading the dangerous waters of racial politics; or officers keeping themselves and the population safe by tracking down cell-made weapons.

Violence often seems inevitable in prison; whether it stems from racial tension, or a dispute between cellmates, it's the job of Corcoran's officers to prevent attacks; in doing so, however, they put their own lives on the line.

At the Penitentiary of New Mexico, officers are outnumbered, and the inmates are unpredictable, especially in Level 6, the maximum-security facility; it's where the deputy warden says "the worst of the worst" are housed.

Few are familiar with the betrayal that helped land Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, billionaire drug lord and for years the world's most wanted man, in prison; the Flores twins earned El Chapo's trust and then helped the Feds put him away for life.

How multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas & Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers by putting profits over safety as alleged by critics.

By promising enormous returns on a work-from-home scheme selling TelexFree phone service, Carlos Wanzeler and James Merrill entice nearly one million people in an extraordinary $1.7 billion internet scam.

A famous art dealer cons New York high society out of millions.

A superstar attorney impersonates an executive to bilk hedge funds out of millions.

Jho Low is accused of being one of the biggest thieves the world has ever seen; authorities say he's the mastermind of an international scheme to steal over $4 billion from the government of Malaysia.

A femme fatale, with a way of getting men to do what she wants, sets a trap for a multi-millionaire divorcee.

Nevin Shapiro, a football booster and a fixture on the Miami social scene, orchestrates a Ponzi scheme.

The son of a preacher bilks believers out of nearly $65 million promising huge returns for short-term investments.

Inside the rise and near-collapse of WeWork, the startup co-founded by its former CEO, Adam Neumann, who mesmerizes venture capitalists with grandiose promises, even though WeWork turns out to be a traditional real estate leasing business.

Few are familiar with the betrayal that helped land Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, billionaire drug lord and for years the world's most wanted man, in prison; the Flores twins earned El Chapo's trust and then helped the Feds put him away for life.

How multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas & Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers by putting profits over safety as alleged by critics.

By promising enormous returns on a work-from-home scheme selling TelexFree phone service, Carlos Wanzeler and James Merrill entice nearly one million people in an extraordinary $1.7 billion internet scam.

A famous art dealer cons New York high society out of millions.

A superstar attorney impersonates an executive to bilk hedge funds out of millions.

Jho Low is accused of being one of the biggest thieves the world has ever seen; authorities say he's the mastermind of an international scheme to steal over $4 billion from the government of Malaysia.

A femme fatale, with a way of getting men to do what she wants, sets a trap for a multi-millionaire divorcee.

Nevin Shapiro, a football booster and a fixture on the Miami social scene, orchestrates a Ponzi scheme.

The son of a preacher bilks believers out of nearly $65 million promising huge returns for short-term investments.

Inside the rise and near-collapse of WeWork, the startup co-founded by its former CEO, Adam Neumann, who mesmerizes venture capitalists with grandiose promises, even though WeWork turns out to be a traditional real estate leasing business.

Few are familiar with the betrayal that helped land Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, billionaire drug lord and for years the world's most wanted man, in prison; the Flores twins earned El Chapo's trust and then helped the Feds put him away for life.

How multibillion-dollar company Pacific Gas & Electric comes to repeatedly kill its customers by putting profits over safety as alleged by critics.

By promising enormous returns on a work-from-home scheme selling TelexFree phone service, Carlos Wanzeler and James Merrill entice nearly one million people in an extraordinary $1.7 billion internet scam.

A famous art dealer cons New York high society out of millions.