America's Toughest Prisons is a Documentary programme.

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America's Toughest Prisons: Newbies

Series 1, episode 5

Documentary series unlocking the truth about some of America's most notorious prisons. This edition follows the experiences of new guards at the Wyoming State Penitentiary, a maximum-security facility. Many of these 'newbies' struggle to cope in the harsh environment, where they are heavily outnumbered by violent inmates and walk the halls armed only with pepper spray.