Lockup

I'm not sure if anyone else has seen it, but everytime I am home with my dad him and I watch "Lockup: San Quentin Extended Stay" on MSNBC. San Quentin is California's oldest and best known correctional institution. It housed both male and female inmates until a female prison was built in 1933..

Each episode focuses on the inmates and life in their prison cells. They show how the inmates create a new life in prison, and even when if they are going to gain freedom, they don't want to leave. One prisoner on the show has been in jail since age 18. The lifestyle of the prison becomes all that the people know and if they end up on the outside again, they cannot live a normal life. Statistically speaking, two years after getting out of prison, more than fifty percent of them find themselves back into jail.