Season 2 - Episode Guide

Life inside Stateville Correctional Center in Joliet, Ill., one of the country's most dangerous maximum-security prisons, is examined.

After a 14-year prison sentence for armed robbery, a 37-year-old ex-con is profiled as he attempts to start his life over on the outside.

A look at efforts to rehabilitate troubled female offenders at Detroit's Wayne County Jail.

A look at Colorado's Youthful Offender System (YOS), where violent juvenile felons are given a chance at rehabilitation before they're sent to adult prisons.

State troopers are followed on the job in the isolated Alaskan bush, where crime rates are among the highest in the state despite its extremely small population.

A look inside the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women, the state's only all-female prison. Included: firsthand accounts from inmates and guards.

Convicted sex offenders discuss the challenges they face inside Colorado's Fremont Correctional Facility, where they find themselves at the bottom of the prison hierarchy.

Profiling four inmates at Colorado's Sterling Correctional Facility, including a white supremacist whose aggressive behavior often lands him in solitary confinement; a drug dealer who's trying to start over; and a pair of convict twins.

Documenting life inside St. Louis County Jail in Clayton, Mo., which houses both small-time offenders and career felons.

Profiling inmates in a notorious Mexican prison, including a couple who fell in love behind bars, and an American who rarely leaves his cell, for his own protection.

A look at life inside Ohio's Cuyahoga County Jail, where men and women arrested on felony charges in Cleveland await trial.

Behind bars, there are two sets of rules: the prison protocol and the convict code. To survive one, you may have to break the other. In a system bent on making inmates better, it's filled with felons who might already be worse. Each inmate must find his place, and with it, a hustle.

An El Paso county detention officer and his wife are brutally murdered just moments away from the U.S. border. The rise of violent murders such as this have made Juarez the murder capital of Mexico. Inside the El Paso County Jail, detention officers are hit hard by the tragedy, holding the line hour by hour against the deadly gang accused of the murders. The jail's special response team is on constant alert ready to respond to outbursts of the gang bangers, housed in a volatile unit of the jail.

It's a constant battle as the guards of Hillsborough County Jail fight to stay one step ahead of the prisoners. Death threats, homemade weapons and orchestrated escape attempts are all in day's work for these officers. The prison goes on high alert after a mysterious phone call threatens the safety of a guard, and an officer responsible for monitoring a pod of inmates learns just how dangerous it can be to turn your back.

With more than 5,000 inmates packed inside eight floors of a downtown skyscraper, Sacramento County Jail is the ultimate urban jungle. NGC takes you behind bars to meet a couple charged with torture and a woman who appears to be getting back on track when her addition to methamphetamines lands her in jail. Amid rumors of an imminent attack against officers, the understaffed wardens prepare for a takedown. But once the suspected prisoner is secured, one question remains: Where is the weapon?

Witness the brutal gang wars raging inside Bexar County Jail near San Antonio, Texas. Meet the officers in the middle of the war, who must anticipate their next moves, and the informants who open up about drugs, extortion and murder. See how a gang member lied his way out of prison only to plot the murder of his rival. Meet remorseful killers too fearful to leave their gangs, and witness the trusting bond formed between two ex-members as they struggle to make a new start behind bars.

Go behind bars at the Denver County Jail, where the officers are charged with transferring gangbangers to a brand-new facility across town. Witness how some prisoners have manipulated their dangerously outdated surroundings to make homemade weapons. Visit the mental health unit as employees struggle to reform a career criminal with severe mental illness. And go inside with deputies as they face an accused triple murderer who discovered a way to keep his maximum-security cell from locking.