Episode 1

In episode 1, Correctional Officers at Albany jail are challenged by the arrival of seven senior gangsters transferred from New York's most notorious prison, Rikers Island. Meanwhile, a 23-year-old ‘straight A-student', Michael Chmielewski, is arrested for the murder of a local hairdresser following a break-in that went wrong; and heroin addict, and mother of four, Tammy Lord tries to go clean.