They are home to habitual criminals and incorrigibles, and have long histories of overcrowding, protests, riots, violence, and bloodshed. Visit some of the most intense and intriquing prisons in the U.S. and Europe as "The Big House" profiles the penitentiaries, prisoners, and wardens that have made history. From the riot-ridden San Quentin prison in California, where "Coyote Flat Killer" Jack Ryan wrongly served 25 years only to be pardoned posthumously, to the backward and burtal Angola Prison, whose 130-year history has recorded chilling scenes of misery, assault, and murder, and the Maze prison in Belfast, where in 1976, IRA inmates protested their imprisonment and refused to wear their uniforms, HISTORY dives deep in to the correctional institutions that have hosted some of the world's most infamous criminals.MORE
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