Prison Chronicles S01E08 Leavenworth

Inside the history and inner workings of prisons; covering institutions from the Tower of London to the high-tech ADX through interviews with journalists, former correctional officers and previously incarcerated individuals.

Leavenworth, located 25-miles northwest of Kansas City, K.S., was the largest maximum-security federal prison in the United States for over a hundred years; Carl Panzram, Robert Stroud and Tommy Silverstein share stories of life behind its walls.