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Orange Is the New Black is the story of Piper Chapman, a woman in her thirties who is sentenced to fifteen months in prison after being convicted of a decade-old crime of transporting money for her drug-dealing girlfriend.

This drama focuses on a prison designer who gets himself thrown into one of his own prisons to help his falsely accused brother escape death row.

Mayor of Kingstown is set in a small Michigan town where the only industry remaining are federal, state, and private prisons, the story follows the McClusky family, the power brokers between the police, criminals, inmates, prison guards and politicians, in a city completely dependent on prisons and the prisoners they contain. It is a stark and brutal look at the business of incarceration.

We all know Bea Smith ruled Wentworth Detention Centre. She was gutsy and fearless. But who was Bea Smith before prison? How did a wife and mother from the suburbs become a top dog without rival? Where did the confidence and fortitude come from that enabled her to get there, and what injustices and misadventures fuelled her determination to do it?

Escape at Dannemora is based on the real-life 2015 prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became sexually entangled.

Oz is the name on the street for the Oswald State Penitentiary. Our wheelchair-bound narrator Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau Jr.) takes us through the wacky world of Emerald City, the experimental prison unit started by Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). There's shankin' and lovin' and cussin' and fightin' but in the end, HBO makes a damn fine prison drama. It's gritty. And there you have it.

Seen through the eyes of two very different men, Time is a visceral and high-stakes portrayal of life in the modern British penal system. It is a story of guilt and forgiveness, punishment and penitence and the impact that prison has on all those who pass through it.

Get ready for an inside look at life in prison like never before. In this series, seven volunteers are sent to live among the general population for 60 days, without anyone knowing their secret. Watch as they navigate the dangerous and unpredictable world of Indiana's Clark County Jail, where they face constant threats and must rely on their wits to survive.

Screw is prison as never seen before - the uncensored, terrifying and often darkly funny reality of life as a prison officer in an all-male prison in 21st century Britain.

Tate plays multiple characters as a documentary crew follows the inmates and staff of HMP Woldsley capturing the penal system at its brutal humorous best.

Join Paul Connolly as he delves into the gritty world of the toughest prisons across the globe. From the inside, he exposes the harsh realities of life behind bars. Experience the raw and unfiltered truth of prison life, as Connolly navigates some of the most notorious and dangerous prisons in the world. Brace yourself for an eye-opening journey into the world of incarceration.

Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert are prison officers and colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison. Their work environment is raw and hostile, and their respective lives outside the prison walls are filled with conflict, secrets, and loneliness for very different reasons. Secrets, that will soon resurface and have great consequences not only for the four prison officers, but for everyone inside and outside the walls.

Sharon Horgan stars as Helen, a falsely imprisoned woman who remains blindly optimistic in the face of an uncaring outside world and an insane prison life. She is joined by Jennifer Saunders as a deranged, "sexual Margaret Thatcher" prison governor, Bryony Hannah as her arsonist cellmate, and Geoffrey McGivern as her useless lawyer.

Prison Brides follows seven women from around the world who believe they have found their soulmates in the most unexpected of places, American prisons. While they started off as prison pen pals, these women fell hard and found themselves willing to risk it all for love.

TIME: The Kalief Browder Story is a six-part documentary series about a 16-year-old student from the Bronx who spent three years on Rikers Island without ever being convicted of a crime.

Prepare for an unfiltered look at life on the inside of the most dangerous gangs in the U.S. With exclusive interviews and never-before-seen footage, we reveal how they operate, earn money, initiate members, and keep reinventing themselves.

Series about Norman Stanley Fletcher, a criminal who is convicted of robbery and sent to Slade Prison for 5 years. He has been in prison many times before and knows the ins and outs of it. He becomes a father figure to most of the men inside and can easily get one over on the screws.

Step inside HMP Larkhall and meet the women of G-Wing, who've committed various offenses that range from shoplifting to murder. Bad Girls shows what life is like for these women in the "inside world" and also shows the real-life problems and behavior of the officers who watch them!

This is a long running Australian soap about the inmates at the fictional women's prison Wentworth Detention Centre. The show ran from 1979 to 1986, with 692 episodes being made in total.

Justice, USA is a compelling 360-degree insider's view of Nashville's criminal justice system, offering unprecedented access to the men's, women's, and juvenile jails, as we watch inmates, deputies, lawyers, and judges confront issues of incarceration, mental illness, and addiction.

Experience the raw reality of prison life as real convicts confront juvenile offenders in an effort to scare them straight. Watch as troubled teens are forced to face the harsh consequences of their actions in this eye-opening series.

Feuds, flirtations and toilet talk go down among the incarcerated women at the Orleans Justice Center in New Orleans on this gritty reality series.

With his major league baseball debut right around the corner, a star pitcher lands in prison and must learn to navigate his new world.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at life in some of America's most notorious prison systems. The show aims to delve inside the minds of both hardened criminals and the guards that try to keep them in line.

Ever wondered how you'd cope in prison? For seven celebrities, that fantasy becomes an unnerving reality.