Lockdown

Lockdown, also known as America's Hardest Prisons, is a National Geographic Channel original series that presents documentaries on prisons and jails across the United States, providing an educational portrait of the American penal system. This series takes viewers inside a variety of prisons and jails, revealing the conditions American prisoners are accustomed to and the unique culture that has developed on the inside. Each episode profiles a specific institution, providing a detailed perspective on life there through the eyes of individual prisoners and guards. Each episode takes a different approach to the subject of imprisonment. In one episode, step behind the bars of Chowchilla, California, a maximum-security prison populated only by female inmates. In another installment, the most high-tech Supermax in the country is examined, where the country's most dangerous inmates are held in captivity twenty-three hours a day. Lockdown is an informative series on what life is like behind America's bars. MORE