Surviving Maximum Security

National Geographic Explorer: Season 2: Episode 9

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Surviving Maximum Security

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National Geographic Channel | National Geographic | Air Date: April 11, 2005
Starring: Lisa Ling
Summary: For one month, Lisa Ling and her camera crew were given a rare look into the hidden world of the California Sacramento State Prison where the most violent male convicts are locked up. Nowhere in the prison was off-limits.

With interviews with newcomers and lifers, and prison security camera footages, Lisa reveals the various precautions
For one month, Lisa Ling and her camera crew were given a rare look into the hidden world of the California Sacramento State Prison where the most violent male convicts are locked up. Nowhere in the prison was off-limits.

With interviews with newcomers and lifers, and prison security camera footages, Lisa reveals the various precautions that inmates take to keep themselves alive and the resulting consequences that could result from a lapse. Viewers are also shown various items that inmates manage to make or smuggle in, including alcohol made from apples and makeshift weapons.
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Genre(s): News/Documentary

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