
Оригінальна назва
The Big House
Випущено
01.01.1998
Країна
US
Жанр
Документальний
Статус
Завершено
Кількість сезонів
4
Кількість епізодів
29
A study of maximum-security prisons in the U.S. and Europe includes profiles of notable prisoners and wardens.






Paul Sorvino narrates this look inside Folsom Prison, a California penitentiary that opened in 1880 and housed infamous criminals such as Charles Manson and Jake Oppenheimer. Also: the multiple hangings that occurred between 1895 and 1937.





The history of Attica Prison, from its construction in rural New York in the 1920s to the bloodiest prison riot in U.S. history in September 1971. Paul Sorvino narrates.


A history of the Louisiana State Prison at Angola. Included: overcrowding; the annual prison rodeo. Paul Sorvino narrates.




A look at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Well-known onetime inmates include Jimmy Hoffa.




A look at the history of Maze Prison, near Belfast, Ireland. Included: the “blanket protest” in 1976, when IRA prisoners refused to wear prison clothes; and the hunger strikes of 1981.












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