Prison Chronicles - Season 1
Run Time: 21 mins
Air Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024
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HistoryExplore some of history's most notorious prisons.
12 Episodes
Alcatraz
Season 1 - Episode 1
Alcatraz, built to hold the worst of the worst, is the last stop for repeat offenders and troublemakers from other prisons. These are three ...
ADX
Season 1 - Episode 2
ADX is the place for terrorists, serial killers, and anyone else who will never again see the light of day. Located in Florence, Colorado it...
Hanoi Hilton
Season 1 - Episode 3
The Hanoi Hilton is perhaps the most famous American POW prison of the Vietnam War located in the city of Hanoi. In Vietnamese its name lite...
Sing Sing
Season 1 - Episode 4
A maximum-security prison on the banks of the Hudson, just 30 miles north of New York City, it gave rise to the term “being sent up the rive...
Dannemora
Season 1 - Episode 5
Dannemora, located in the frigid Adirondack mountains, its nickname is "little Siberia." Officially called the Clinton Correctional facility...
San Quentin
Season 1 - Episode 6
San Quentin located in Marin County on the San Francisco Bay is California's oldest prison dating back to the gold rush, and home to the sta...
Attica
Season 1 - Episode 7
Attica, a 90-year-old maximum-security prison in upstate New York, has a legacy of violence and inmate abuse stretching back decades. From t...
Leavenworth
Season 1 - Episode 8
Leavenworth located 25-miles northwest of Kansas City, was the largest maximum-security federal prison in the United States for over a hundr...
Devil's Island
Season 1 - Episode 9
France shipped prisoners to Devil's Island located off French Guiana so they would vanish from the public eye; its most famous prisoner, Alf...
Andersonville
Season 1 - Episode 10
Deep in the heart of the Confederacy, Andersonville was the last place a Union soldier wanted to end up during the Civil War; only opened fo...
Tower of London
Season 1 - Episode 11
Located in the heart of London on the River Thames, the Tower of London's reputation for torture and beheadings fuels nightmares; originally...
The Soviet Gulag
Season 1 - Episode 12
Within the first forty years of operation of the Soviet Gulag system, at least 18 million people were imprisoned and more than one and a hal...