TV Guide: Lock Up

Video: Inside Utah State Prison

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:13:54 -0500

Just south of Salt Lake City is the largest maximum-security facility in Utah. Covering almost 700 acres, it houses nearly 4000 inmates, more than one in ten of whom are women. It also has one of the most violent inmate populations in the country and is one of only three facilities in the United States that still offers the option of death by firing squad. MSNBC cameras take you inside the super maximum "jail within a prison." where some inmates choose to be housed to protect themselves from fellow prisoners.

Video: Inside San Quentin

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:45:38 -0500

San Quentin State Prison in California is one of the most famous, most notorious penitentiaries in the world. It has a long and often violent history. But today its walls are crumbling, the institution itself is outdated, and inmate assaults are growing in number and severity. See life at San Quentin as you've never seen it before, including a rare look inside California's death row.

Video: Inside North Carolina Women's Prison

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:45:38 -0500

Don't let appearances fool you. Although it may look like a college campus, this maximum-security facility is home to more than 1100 inmates. The women held here have committed crimes ranging from theft to murder. Some will never again live life on the outside. MSNBC profiles some of the daughters, sisters, mothers and grandmothers doing hard time, and we hear about one of the topics many prisoners are reluctant to talk about: love between prisoners behind bars.

Video: Inside Wabash

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:45:38 -0500

This edition of Lockup, one of the most graphic and disturbing ever, profiles The Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. Situated in America's heartland among acres of Indiana cornfields, this prison houses not only the state's most violent offenders, but also a large population of the mentally ill. Approximately one third of the prisoners have been diagnosed with a mental illness. With the permission of medical and prison staff, and inmates as well, we take a look at the challenges of not only housing violent offenders, but also those with serious psychiatric needs.

Video: Return to Rikers

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:28:58 -0500

See how the once-infamous Rikers Island jail has reinvented itself. Our cameras first went inside Rikers in 1999, when Bernard Kerik was the commissioner of the New York Department of Corrections. His get-tough policies resulted in a sharp drop in violence at Rikers Island, and a substantial reduction in the inmate population. This remarkable inside look shows how they did it.

Video: Inside Stateville

Amazon Video on Demand — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:50:17 -0500

Go inside an Illinois prison that's always been home to some of the state's most violent criminals. Nearly half of the twenty-six hundred inmates are in for murder. One in four are serving time for the commission of violent crimes. Although convicts once challenged guards for control, MSNBC shows you how prison officials have been able to introduce reforms that keep the inmate population in check.

Video: Inside Riverbend

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:40:53 -0500

Just four miles from downtown Nashville are Tennessee's most violent offenders, and site of the state's only operating death chamber. Meet some of the inmates of Riverbend Maximum Security Prison, including one on death row who has no remorse for killing his four children. See first-hand the extreme measures prison staff take to control an explosive prison population.

Video: The Criminal Mind

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:39:58 -0500

How should we handle people who have served their time, but clearly remain a danger to themselves and others? In California, there is often a single answer: Atascadero State Hospital. It is sometimes a temporary, but often a permanent home to more than a thousand of the most violent murderers, child molesters and rapists -- men who have been forcibly committed for psychiatric treatment. Prison officials agreed to let MSNBC into the facility for a very rare glimpse of what it is like to live and work in what could easily be one of the most dangerous places in the country.

Video: Inside Folsom Prison

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:39:54 -0500

Since its creation in 1880, Folsom State Prison in California has had a violent and bloody reputation. MSNBC takes you inside one of America's oldest maximum-security prisons, known as "the end of the world" by inmates even though they outnumber prison officials 92 to 1.

Video: The Inmate Diaries

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:15:06 -0500

The Davis correctional facility in Holdenville, Oklahoma allowed 10 of its inmates a unique opportunity -- a chance to tell their own stories. Given small, easy-to-use cameras, these men shared their experiences -- how they wound up behind bars, and what they plan on doing when, or if, they get out. No interviewer, no script, no subject off-limits. These video diaries paint a portrait of individual tragedies and rebirths, run-ins with drugs and the law, and stories of crime and redemption.

Video: Inside Anamosa

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:37:34 -0500

MSNBC goes inside this maximum security facility in eastern Iowa, home to the state's most violent offenders. Officials keep things under control here through a zero tolerance rule on infractions, sending inmates who break the rules to do hard time in "The Hole."

Video: Return to Valley State

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:58:08 -0500

Valley State Women's Prison in California is one of the largest all-female prisons in the world. We first visited in 2000. Here, we return to see if five years of reform have made any difference to this facility's chronic overcrowding, or its inmate abuse, drug addiction and violence.

Video: Inside Wabash

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:41 -0500

Violent offenders and mentally ill inmates in Indiana are profiled.

Video: The Inmate Diaries

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:39 -0500

Oklahoma inmates tell their own remarkable stories.

Video: Inside Utah State Prison

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:38 -0500

A "jail within a prison" protects some inmates from others.

Video: Inside Anamosa

Hulu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:57:29 -0500

Maintaining control through "zero tolerance" in Iowa.

Video: Two Wrongs

Amazon Video on Demand — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:20:18 -0500

Not long after she gets into a huge fight with her arrogant and short-tempered leading man, an actress is found murdered. The actor is indicted for the killing, but a friend of his who believes him to be innocent tries to convince attorney Herb Maris to help him.

Video: Lock Up

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:43:48 -0500

"This is hell and I'm going to give you a guided tour!" With these chilling words, the warden (Donald Sutherland) welcomes Frank Leone (Sylvester Stallone) to Gateway Prison, a nightmare jail where every minute is hard time. The warden wants vengeance for the past; Leone wants only to survive the present. Their explosive battle of wills is the electrifying heart of one of Stallone's most heroic thrillers, LOCK UP. Stallone gives a monumental performance as Leone, a convict driven to break his own cherished code by a warden who will stop at nothing to get him.

Video: The Harry Conners Story

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:34:15 -0500

Harry Connors goes on trial for the fatal beating of a wealthy businessman, and despite the fact that four eyewitnesses say they saw him do it, he is found innocent and set free. Although the public is outraged at this seeming miscarriage of justice, Herb Maris begins to have strong doubts about the man's guilt and begins to investigate the case himself.

Video: The Sisters

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:20:52 -0500

Shortly before he is to testify in a bitter divorce brought by his wife, a philandering socialite is found shot to death in their apartment. Although suspicion at first falls on the wife, the corner rules the death a suicide. However, Herb Maris isn't all that sure about the coroner's conclusion, and begins to investigate the case himself.

Video: Lock Up

CinemaNow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:15:52 -0500

"This is hell and I'm going to give you a guided tour!"