A behind-the-scenes exploration of America's maximum security prisons, home to the system's most dangerous and violent offenders, where prisoners are moved around shackled to the guards and solitary confinement and solitary exercise are the norm.

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Three prisons are investigated - Westville Maximum Control Complex in Indiana, Oak Park Heights in Minnesota, and the federal supermax at Florence, Colorado.

This film was first broadcast: 2000

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