In Prison TV Shows (
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Most (if not all) of these shows center on prisons and their inmates. Some may involve escapes and following those recidivists outside their natural habitat. Most do not.

9-1-1

This show explores the high-pressure experiences of police, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations.

Avlu

After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.

Bad Girls

A British hard-hitting drama about the staff and inmates of a women’s prison.

Born Innocent

Young girl runs away from her abusive family only to end up in a juvenile detention center for girls where she’s brutalized by her sadistic peers.

Cage Without a Key

A teenage girl’s charismatic boyfriend frames her in a robbery and she finds herself convicted of first-degree murder.

Capadocia

The stories of several women imprisoned for different reasons in an experimental penal complex in Mexico City.

Carcereiros

A correctional officer must endure the challenges of incarceration for both himself and prisoners.

ClaireBell คลั่ง/รัก/นักโทษ

Bell is sent off to prison after drugs are stached in her bag. There she meets Claire who is known to be the prison’s wild dog. Bell quickly sees through the facade and amidst prison politics the two bond over gardening, comics and the prison cat.

Hinter Gittern

Another women in prison TV show? It’s like a cliche or something…

Inmates: A Love Story

A co-ed penitentiary is the off-beat backdrop for this romantic drama of a pair of security inmates under the watchful eye of an … unorthodox superintendent.

Intergalactic

A crew of fierce female convicts break free and go on the run.

Orange is the New Black

Piper Chapman, a 30-something PR executive goes to prison for drug running with her ex-girlfriend Alex from 10 years ago. When she gets to prison — surprise — Alex is there too.