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.

Prisoner: Cell Block H

Women! In prison! In the 70s!

Network:
Airdates: 1979 - 1986

Proven Innocent

The emotional story of one woman’s fight for the innocence of others, as well as her own.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

Sacred Lies

A teenager with no hands is suspected of knowing who killed her cult’s leader and lands in juvenile detention.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2018 - 2020

Servir y Proteger

The daily routine of a CNP police station on Madrid.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2023

Space Force

Satirical comedy following America’s newest four-star general, General Mark R. Naird, as he takes command of America’s even newer military branch, the Space Force.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2022

Stranger Inside

A mother daughter reunion set in the harsh reality of a women’s correctional facility.

Network:
Airdates: 2001

Supermax

Twelve people are confined together in an abandoned maximum security prison in the middle of the Amazon forest, and end up having to fight for their lives against unknown creatures, supernatural odds and their worst enemy: themselves.

Network:
Airdates: 2016

Tenko

An uplifting drama about life in a prison camp.

Network:
Airdates: 1981 - 1984

The I-Land

When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are and how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

The Longest Night

Centres on a psychiatric prison where a group of armed men aim to capture an incarcerated serial killer, but are met with resistance from the prison director.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

Unité 9

Canada’s broodier OitNB.

Network:
Airdates: 2012 - 2019

Vis a Vis

A naive young woman finds herself locked up in a high-security women’s prison.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2015 - 2019