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Riverbend Maximum Security Prison inmates tell their stories.

Inside Riverbend

Inmates of California's Valley State Prison for Women try rehabilitation.

Return to Valley State

See how the once-infamous Rikers Island jail has reinvented itself.

Return to Rikers Island

Inside the largest maximum security facility in Salt Lake City. A "jail within a prison" protects some inmates from others.

Inside Utah State Prison

Revealing of how these women deal with relationships and struggles.

Inside North Carolina Women's Prison

Behind the walls of Kentucky's only maximum security prison.

Inside Kentucky State Penitentiary

Inside the maximum security facility in Eastern Iowa.

Inside Anamosa

One of the most violent and volatile penitentiaries in the nation.

Return to Pelican Bay

The Corcoran State Prison, located in an isolated valley, is one of California's largest maximum-security institutions.

Return to Corcoran

California's Kern Valley State Prison opens its doors in 2005.

Inside Wabash

Inside Miami-Dade Corrections

Inside The Penitentiary of New Mexico

Inside Elayn Hunt Prison

Oklahoma inmates tell their own remarkable stories.

The Inmate Diaries

Half of Chicago's Stateville Correctional Center's inmates are imprisoned for murder.

Inside Stateville

LA County Jail is a system that is overcrowded, tough on gangs, and struggling with an increase in racial violence.

Inside LA County Jail

Inside the maximum security prison inmates call 'the end of the world.'

Inside Folsom Prison

A profile of San Quentin State Prison in California; one of the most famous, most notorious penitentiaries in the world.

Inside San Quentin

Inside Kern Valley

Inside Iowa State Penitentiary

Inside Brushy Mountain

Alabama's Holman maximum security prison.

Inside Holman Correctional Facility

Inside Indiana State Prison

Inside Spring Creek, Alaska

The violent history of San Quentin State Prison in California.

San Quentin: Extended Stay - The Gang's All Here

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison find ways to fight boredom.

Extended Stay: Killing Time

Inmates receive visitors during their prison stays.

San Quentin: Extended Stay - The Conjugal Visit

A dangerous combination of gangs, drugs and boredom encourages inmates to commit violent offenses in prison.

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Bad Boys, Bad Boys

A 20-year-old inmate speaks about how he grew up on the streets and what motivates him to turn his life around.

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Weapons 101

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Slammin' in the Slammer

Grantt Culliver controls the disruptive inmates of Holman Correctional Facility.

Holman: Extended Stay - He Takes No Prisoners

Relationships both inside and outside the prison walls.

Holman: Extended Stay - Locked Up Love

Dangerous inmates are segregated from the rest of the prison population.

Holman: Extended Stay - Snake and Fluffy

Correctional officers search prisoners for weapons.

Holman: Extended Stay - The Shakedown

Serving life sentences or death sentences in prison.

Holman: Extended Stay - Til Death Do Us Part

Unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility.

Holman: Extended Stay - You Wanna Work Where?

Nine of the most violent criminals from the 'Lockup' series give chilling accounts of their crimes.

Raw: Criminal Minds

Inmates must develop methods to cope with the pressures and fear that come with incarceration.

Raw: Hell in a Cell

Inmate violence including riots, shanks and attacks on officers.

Raw: Violence Behind Bars

Inmates' unwritten rules known as the Convict Code.

Raw: Convict Code

On a regular basis camera crew explore where even the most heinous violations are an every day activity.

Raw: Ever Present Danger

Raw: Prison Love

The daily grind of prison life has been known to push some inmates to the brink.

Raw: The Daily Grind

Raw: The Devil's Workshop

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Love and Hate

Known gang members are sent to security housing units to control their activity.

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Everyone Gets Got

Corcoran officers put their lives on the line to prevent inmate attacks.

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Prison Politices

Inmates find various ways to smuggle in contraband.

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Hugs Not Drugs

Survival is the number one priority for inmates and officers alike inside Corcoran.

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Lockdown

Inmates must choose between doing their time or following a more self-destructive path.

Corcoran: Extended Stay - Road to Redemption

Raw: Inmates Gone Wild

Three of America's busiest and largest jails.

Raw: Americas Thoughest Jails

Raw: Hard Time

In prison, knowing the right answers could mean the difference between life and death.

Raw: Friend or Foe

Prisoners take hostages in the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - Taking a Hostage

Inmates land longer sentences due to bad behavior.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - Pros and Cons

The dangerous inmates of Level Six in the Penitentiary of New Mexico.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - Fight or Flight

Inmates who become disruptive or violent are transferred to the lock-up units in levels five and six.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - Institutionalized

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.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - War

Some inmates leave prison by 'paroling legit' or in a body bag and others earn time for early parole, but a few will attempt escape.

New Mexico: Extended Stay - Get Out and Stay Out

The experience of interviewing violent offenders in prison.

Raw: Killers Among Us

An inmate feels his survival depends on staying in prison; prison food.

Raw: Survival 101

Raw: Ganging Up

Raw: Time to Kill

A stabbing puts the prison on high alert; a brash new inmate gets taken down a notch.

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - Old School Convicts

An anonymous tip puts Internal Affairs on high alert.

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - Tipped Off

The many meanings of 'cutting' at Indiana State Prison.

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - Cutting

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - For Better or For Worse

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - Brotherhood

Some prisoners resort to violence while others become victims.

Indiana State Prison: Extended Stay - Predator & Prey

While visiting Limon Correctional, the Lockup crew is greeted by angry inmates and the cell extraction team is called in to help.

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - There Goes The Neighborhood

World Tour: Eastern Europe

World Tour: Western Europ

Behind the walls of six maximum-security prison in Serbia, Poland, and the Czech Republic.

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - Crackdown

Life inside prisons throughout Scotland and Belgium.

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - The Hustle

Extractions at Colorado State Penitentiary.

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - Homecoming

Violence at the Limon Correctional Facility in Colorado.

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - Pain

Limon Colorado: Extended Stay - Love Hurts

Tennessee Prison for Women along the banks of the Cumberland River is home to more than 700 inmates.

Tennessee Women's Prison

Zero to Sixty

North Carolina's Women

Five notorious inmates reveal insights into their predatory behavior.

Raw: Predatory Behavior

Long periods of monotony are broken up by brief moments of terror.

Raw: Never a Dull Moment

Raw: Livin' the Life

In a life full of restrictions, we've seen inmates take control of whatever they can, despite the consequences. We've seen frustrated inmates reach their breaking point. And in the battle of wills, some will take actions that can never be reversed.

Raw: Pushing the Limits

Every murder has a motive and often the murder is committed by the least likely person.

Raw: The Killer Next Door

Three inmates prepare to cross the threshold to freedom.

Raw: The Revolving Door

The most extreme Lockup stories ever. These are the prison stories best described by one word. And the word is... HARDCORE.

Raw: Hardcore

In prison, as on the outside, a single decision can change a persons life forever. And we've seen inmates make all kinds of fateful choices. But behind bars, there is no escaping the consequences of one's actions.

Raw: Dues and Don't

A female housing unit inmates call a party house will turn a new inmates life upside down.

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - Daddy's Girl

Located on the top floor of Maricopa County's Fourth Avenue Jail Facility, are the highest-security male housing units. These inmates have either committed violent acts in the jail or have been identified as gang members. And like all inmates at Maricopa, some are awaiting trial while others have been convicted and are appealing their verdicts or sentences. They are isolated in very stark cells 23 hours a day and get one hour of rec time in an empty concrete room with a skylight located right next door to their cells. Without the distraction of television, radio or a cellmate, even the most hardened criminals can break under the pressure. One gang member makes a desperate cry for help by putting a noose around his neck, then says, "I just need somebody to talk to." And on the other side of the jail, completely isolated from other inmates, Maricopa's four most dangerous women form a notorious sisterhood

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - Chain Reaction

Behind the bars of Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, run by controversial figure in the immigration battle.

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - Heat Wave

In one of Maricopa's primary men's facilities, the Fourth Avenue Jail, when inmates are not in their small, two-person cells, they can work out in an indoor rec room, or in the common area between their cells. But every afternoon, many of the inmates shift focus from their bodies to their bank accounts. Since inmates are not allowed access to cash, they have another way to pay gambling debts. The losers must purchase snacks or other items from the jail canteen for the winners. They pay for canteen through debit accounts that friends or relatives on the outside deposit money into. But a losing hand can bring serious consequences.

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - High Stakes

No matter the circumstances that brought them there, Maricopa County Jail in Phoenix, Arizona, will have a profound effect on who the inmates will become. And for some, their time in jail will reveal their true nature.

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - Identity Crisis

A world where tensions run high especially for a mother and son who were accused of a heinous murder.

Maricopa County: Extended Stay - Trials and Tribulations

Producers take the time to get to know dozens of inmates, following the action and watching the story unfold in from of their eyes.

Raw: Doomed Decisions

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.

Raw: Harsh Reality

No escaping the consequences of one's actions behind bars.

Raw: Consequences

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.

Raw: The Three R's

Relationships on the inside can be more complicated than on the outside.

Raw: It's Complicated

Lockup explore prison facilities throughout the United States, profiling notable inmates, incidents, and prison operations.

The Best Seasons of Lockup

The Best Seasons of Lockup

Season 2

Season 12

Season 5

Season 3

Season 11

Season 22

Season 8

Season 14

Season 23

Season 13

Season 17

Season 9

Season 24

Season 18

Season 19

Season 10

Season 1

Season 4

Season 6

Season 7

Season 15

Season 16

Season 20

Season 21

Season 25