Inside The Most Dangerous Jails In America | BBC Documentary

The United States holds a quarter of the world’s prisoners, and before they are ever convicted, they do their time here. This documentary takes you inside an American maximum security jail, a city within a city where petty criminals live alongside those accused of murder. Life on the inside is a daily battle for control between hardened inmates and the dedicated correctional officers who must maintain order.

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