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Jefferson City
Episode number: 1
Lewisburg
Episode number: 2
Overview: A look at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Well-known onetime inmates include Jimmy Hoffa.
Raiford
Episode number: 3
Breakout from Alcatraz
Episode number: 4
Escape from Colditz
Episode number: 5
Maze Prison
Episode number: 6
Overview: A look at the history of Maze Prison, near Belfast, Ireland. Included: the “blanket protest” in 1976, when IRA prisoners refused to wear prison clothes; and the hunger strikes of 1981.