Lockdown

- Season 2

(2007)

Step inside the Utah State Prison where one in four of the state's most dangerous criminals have gang ties. Find out why the imates put their gang first, no matter what -- even if it means losing custody of their children.

Wyoming State Penitentiary is severely understaffed and overcrowded. How will three new recruits face the challenges of officer training, manipulative inmates, and working in a dangerous environment where escape and murder are realities?

Imagine trying to study surrounded by murders and rapists. Prisoners face this challenge daily while participating in a college education program run by inmates.

Imagine trying to study surrounded by murders and rapists. Prisoners face this challenge daily while participating in a college education program run by inmates.

In Iowa's Fort Dodge Correctional Facility young offenders are sent straight into the lion's den -- the cellblocks and the yard, where predators and gang members lurk.

National Geographic hangs with deputies and three inmates over a one-month period in the Multnomah County Detention Center, Portland, Oregon's maximum-security jail.

At Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois, National Geographic goes inside one of America's oldest and most notorious prisons, where inmates are often locked down 24 hours a day for days at a time.