Unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility.
Serving life sentences or death sentences in prison.
Correctional officers search prisoners for weapons.
Dangerous inmates are segregated from the rest of the prison population.
Relationships both inside and outside the prison walls.
Grantt Culliver controls the disruptive inmates of Holman Correctional Facility.
The prison's annual poetry slam.
A 20-year-old inmate speaks about how he grew up on the streets and what motivates him to turn his life around.
A dangerous combination of gangs, drugs and boredom encourages inmates to commit violent offenses in prison.
Inmates receive visitors during their prison stays.
Inmates at San Quentin State Prison find ways to fight boredom.
The violent history of San Quentin State Prison in California.
