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Hard Time: Worst of the Worst
Welcome to the worst of the worst. Do a crime and get caught: you go to jail. Behave poorly in jail and you go to solitary confinement. But what if you don’t clean up your act? There’s another step – seldom heard about. Welcome to the prison within a prison.
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Charles Manson Then and Now
Charles Manson was jailed in 1970 after leading a cult of followers and murdering innocent victims, including the wife and unborn child of Hollywood director Roman Polanski. Manson has not left prison since 1970: the world has changed but as he? In this truly disturbing documentary, we catch up with Charles Manson and see what [...]
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Banged Up Abroad
Banged Up Abroad features stories of people who have been arrested while traveling abroad, usually for trying to smuggle illegal drugs out of a country and have received lengthy prison sentences as a result.
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Strangeways
A documentary mini-series following the lives of prisoners and prison staff at Strangeways in Manchester, UK, the largest high security prison in the county.
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Kids Behind Bars
Hidden away in the very darkest corners of countries that would rather not acknowledge their existence, there is an army of children whose voices are never heard. This film looks at the experience of incarceration for juvenile offenders in countries as diverse as the U.S.A. and India, the UK and Brazil.
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Miami Mega Jail
In this two-part series, Louis Theroux spends time in one of the most notorious sections of Miami County Jail: the fifth and sixth floor of ‘Main Jail’, where many of the most volatile inmates are incarcerated.
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Behind Bars
Louis Theroux travels to California to spend two weeks in the notorious San Quentin State Prison.
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The Maze Prison Escape
Documentary on The Maze Prison Escape in the Early 1980s. 36 IRA Men in Block 7 escaped from Europes most secure prison based inside a British Military Facility just outside Lisburn.
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The Mark of Cain
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners – The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos.
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Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder
Across the United States, violent crime in prison is an everyday reality, with inmates routinely exposed to assault, riot, rape and murder. Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder examines the culture of institutional violence through the events that led to one brutal prison murder.
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The Real Bangkok Hilton
Dubbed the “Bangkok Hilton” by the West, Thailand’s Bangkwang jail is one of the most notorious prisons in the world. This documentary tells the human stories of prisoners struggling to stay sane in the jail’s cramped conditions, and the Thai staff struggling to cope with the ever-increasing number of inmates.
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Lockup Raw
Follow the life in Americas prisons. Featuring Americas toughest prisons and an insight in prison love.
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