America's Toughest Prisons is a Documentary programme.

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America's Toughest Prisons: Tent City

Series 1, episode 2

Documentary series unlocking the truth about some of America's most notorious prisons. In the desert outside Phoenix, Arizona, Maricopa County Jail boasts Tent City - a correctional facility where inmates are kept outdoors in the searing desert heat. At Tent City, such luxuries as sugar, salt, coffee and tobacco are all banned and prisoners face a constant battle to gain control of the contraband trade from the guards. How will new inmate Ryan Merlina cope in this harsh environment?