Season 1
(2024)
Overview
Explore some of history's most notorious prisons.
Cast
Episodes
Alcatraz 0.0
July 29, 2024
Alcatraz, built to hold the worst of the worst, is the last stop for repeat offenders and troublemakers from other pris…
ADX 0.0
July 29, 2024
ADX is the place for terrorists, serial killers, and anyone else who will never again see the light of day. Located in …
Hanoi Hilton 0.0
August 5, 2024
The Hanoi Hilton is perhaps the most famous American POW prison of the Vietnam War located in the city of Hanoi. In Vie…
Sing Sing 0.0
August 5, 2024
A maximum-security prison on the banks of the Hudson, just 30 miles north of New York City, it gave rise to the term “b…
Dannemora 0.0
August 12, 2024
Dannemora, located in the frigid Adirondack mountains, its nickname is "little Siberia." Officially called the Clinton …
San Quentin 0.0
August 19, 2024
San Quentin located in Marin County on the San Francisco Bay is California's oldest prison dating back to the gold rush…
Attica 0.0
August 26, 2024
Attica, a 90-year-old maximum-security prison in upstate New York, has a legacy of violence and inmate abuse stretching…
Leavenworth 0.0
September 2, 2024
Leavenworth located 25-miles northwest of Kansas City, was the largest maximum-security federal prison in the United St…
Devil's Island 0.0
September 9, 2024
France shipped prisoners to Devil's Island located off French Guiana so they would vanish from the public eye; its most…
Andersonville 0.0
September 16, 2024
Deep in the heart of the Confederacy, Andersonville was the last place a Union soldier wanted to end up during the Civi…
Tower of London 0.0
September 23, 2024
Located in the heart of London on the River Thames, the Tower of London's reputation for torture and beheadings fuels n…
The Soviet Gulag 0.0
September 23, 2024
Within the first forty years of operation of the Soviet Gulag system, at least 18 million people were imprisoned and mo…