Lockup (TV series)

Lockup is a prison documentary series, produced by 44 Blue Productions, which airs on MSNBC. The franchise also includes Lockup: Raw, Lockup: World Tour, Lockup: Extended Stay, Lockup: Disturbing the Peace, Lockup: Special Investigation, and Life After Lockup.

Lockup
Genre	Reality, documentary, drama
Created by	Rasha Drachkovitch
Developed by	44 Blue Productions
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	25
No. of episodes	237 (list of episodes)
Release
Original network	MSNBC
Original release	June 4, 2005 – February 11, 2017
External links
Website

Overview

Lockup and the other series in the franchise explore jail and prison facilities throughout the United States, profiling notable inmates, incidents, and prison operations. A typical episode usually follows one or two inmates as they attend disciplinary hearings, receive visits from family, and interact with other inmates. In some episodes, inmates are provided with personal video cameras ("inmate cams") to use in their cells for recording their thoughts.

Titles within the franchise deal in specific areas as follows:

• Raw – Previously unaired footage from visits to various prisons, interspersed with comments from the production crew
• Extended Stay – Blocks of episodes that each focus on a long-term visit to one prison
• World Tour – Visits to prisons in countries other than the United States
• Special Investigation – Focus on a specific aspect of the prison system, usually the juvenile justice system
• Life After Lockup – Inmates who have been released from prison and are trying to return to society

Most episodes end with a 'recap', explaining what happened to a given inmate (or, on occasion, a staff member) months or years after the taping; subsequent episodes will frequently return to a given prison (and/or a given inmate) to revisit them several months later.

The cancellation of Lockup was announced on June 29, 2016, with the twenty-fifth season as the series' last.[1]

Episodes

Season		Episodes		Originally aired
				First aired	Last aired
	1	18		June 4, 2005	February 4, 2006
	2	6		July 24, 2006	December 18, 2006
	3	12		September 7, 2007	December 28, 2007
	4	28		January 2, 2008	May 23, 2009
	5	14		May 25, 2009	December 26, 2009
	6	3		January 1, 2010	January 23, 2010
	7	8		March 6, 2010	April 24, 2010
	8	14		July 3, 2010	December 25, 2010
	9	7		December 25, 2010	April 9, 2011
	10	12		July 2, 2011	October 15, 2011
	11	6		November 26, 2011	December 31, 2011
	12	6		January 7, 2012	February 18, 2012
	13	8		April 7, 2012	May 26, 2012
	14	12		October 13, 2012	December 29, 2012
	15	12		April 13, 2013	August 17, 2013
	16	12		October 5, 2013	December 21, 2013
	17	6		March 1, 2014	April 5, 2014
	18	7		May 31, 2014	July 12, 2014
	19	5		September 6, 2014	October 4, 2014
	20	6		November 22, 2014	December 27, 2014
	21	6		February 28, 2015	April 4, 2015
	22	6		May 30, 2015	July 4, 2015
	23	6		August 1, 2015	September 5, 2015
	24	12		October 10, 2015	December 26, 2015
	25	5		January 14, 2017	February 11, 2017

References

1. "Lockup Cancelled By MSNBC – No Season 26". Renew Cancel TV. Retrieved 29 June 2016.

External links

• 44 Blue Productions website
• Series page at 44 Blue Productions
• Series page at MSNBC
• Lockup at IMDb