Lockdown

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.