Lockup (TV series)
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Genre | Reality, Documentary, Drama |
Created by | Rasha Drachkovitch |
Developed by | 44 Blue Productions |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 24 |
No. of episodes | 230 |
Release | |
Original network | MSNBC |
Original release | June 4, 2005 – present |
External links | |
Website |
Lockup is a prison documentary series, produced by 44 Blue Productions, which airs on MSNBC. The Lockup franchise also includes Lockup: Raw, Lockup: World Tour, Lockup: Extended Stay, Lockup: Special Investigation, and Life After Lockup.
Lockup (and the other series in the franchise) explore jail and prison facilities throughout the United States, profiling notable inmates, incidents, and prison operations. A typical episode usually follows one or two inmates as they attend disciplinary hearings, receive visits from family, and interact with other inmates. In some episodes, inmates are provided with personal video cameras ("inmate cams") to use in their cells for recording their thoughts.
Titles within the franchise deal in specific areas as follows:
- Raw – Previously unaired footage from visits to various prisons, interspersed with comments from the production crew
- Extended Stay – Blocks of episodes that each focus on a long-term visit to one prison
- World Tour – Visits to prisons in countries other than the United States
- Special Investigation – Focus on a specific aspect of the prison system, usually the juvenile justice system
- Life After Lockup – Inmates who have been released from prison and are trying to return to society
Most episodes end with a 'recap', explaining what happened to a given inmate (or, on occasion, a staff member) months or years after the taping; subsequent episodes will frequently return to a given prison (and/or a given inmate) to revisit them several months later.
Episodes
- This list is not complete.
# | Title | Institution | State |
G001 | Inside San Quentin | San Quentin State Prison | California |
G002 | Return to Rikers | Rikers Island | New York |
G003 | Inside Riverbend | Riverbend Maximum Security Institution | Tennessee |
G004 | Return to Valley State | Valley State Prison for Women | California |
G005 | Inside Wabash | Wabash Valley Correctional Facility | Indiana |
G006 | Inside Folsom Prison | Folsom State Prison | California |
G007 | Inside North Carolina Women's Prison | North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women | North Carolina |
G008 | Inside Utah State Prison | Utah State Prison | Utah |
G009 | Inside Stateville | Stateville Correctional Center | Illinois |
G010 | Inside Anamosa | Anamosa State Penitentiary | Iowa |
G011 | The Inmate Diaries | Davis Correctional Facility | Oklahoma |
G012 | The Criminal Mind | Atascadero State Hospital | California |
G013 | Inside Kentucky State Penitentiary | Kentucky State Penitentiary | Kentucky |
G014 | Return to Corcoran | California State Prison, Corcoran | California |
G015 | Return to Pelican Bay | Pelican Bay State Prison | California |
G016 | Inside L.A. County | Los Angeles County jail system | California |
G017 | Louisiana | Louisiana State Penitentiary | Louisiana |
G018 | Inside Brushy Mountain | Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex | Tennessee |
G019 | New Mexico | Penitentiary of New Mexico | New Mexico |
G020 | Inside Alaska | Spring Creek Correctional Center | Alaska |
G021 | Inside Holman | Holman Correctional Facility | Alabama |
G022 | Inside Kern Valley | Kern Valley State Prison | California |
G023 | Guards at Risk | — | Various |
G024 | Inside Stark | Heman G. Stark Youth Correctional Facility | California |
G025 | Violence Behind Bars | — | Various |
G026 | Survival Behind Bars | — | Various |
G027 | Shock Incarceration | Louisiana's IMPACT Boot camp | Louisiana |
G028 | Getting Out | — | Various |
External links
- 44 Blue Productions website
- Series page at 44 Blue Productions
- Series page at MSNBC
- Lockup at the Internet Movie Database