Behind Bars Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Convict Clashes

  How the nature of incarcerated criminals combined with the pressure of existing in close quarters frequently triggers disputes inside some of America's most notorious prisons

• Criminal Minds

  Nine of the most violent prisoners featured in the series discuss the motivation behind their crimes and how they cope with the prospect of serving lengthy sentences

• Ever Present Danger

  An insight into how warders try to control the atmosphere inside America's prisons, where the threat of danger and violence informs every decision and action taken by staff

• Fight or Flight

  Some of the more dangerous inmates held in level six of the Mexican jail prepare for hearings, which could see them moved to a lower-security area

• Hard Time

  Members of prison staff explain how they deal with difficult convicts, who are often those condemned to life imprisonment with the knowledge they may never be released

• Inmates Gone Wild

  Examining how the dull routine facing inmates in American prisons, is occasionally broken by sudden outbreaks of violence and terror, fuelled by a high degree of negative energy

• Killers Among Us

  An insight into how murders happen in American's most notorious prisons, featuring interviews with the killers

• Laws of the Jungle

  A look at how the threat of violence is an occupational hazard for warders as inmates take out their frustration on the staff and each other, and the methods used to suppress it

• Lockdown

  Documentary series about life behind bars in America. In this episode there is a statewide lockdown across the Californian prison system after a violent event puts staff in danger

• Love and Hate

  Prisoner interaction ranges from violent to romantic inside the California State Prison

• Prison Politics

  Documentary following officers at Corcoran State Prison in California as they put their lives on the line to keep the peace

• San Quentin's Bad Boys

  Life in California's San Quentin State Prison, which houses all the inmates on death row in the state and was once the site of a live concert by country music star Johnny Cash

• Snake and Fluffy

  The story of violent prisoner Bobby 'Snake' Gilbert, who has spent 19 years in solitary confinement with only stray cats for company at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama

• Survival Skills

  The coping mechanisms of convicts who are physically attacked or subjected to some form of extortion by their inmates, and often have to be kept in isolation for their own safety