Piper Chapman (Taylor Schiling), una mujer de Connecticut con una vida estable y un alto cargo ejecutivo, es detenida a raíz de un delito de drogas que cometió hace una década: en aquellos días llevó un maletín con dinero de la droga para Alex Vause (Laura Prepon), una traficante y antigua amante de Piper. Tras el juicio, es enviada a prisión de mujeres en Litchfield, Nueva York. Basada en las vivencias reales de Kerman, cuya experiencia entre rejas le sirvió para escribir el best-seller autobiográfico 'Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women's Prison'. A medio camino entre el drama y la comedia, una aclamada serie -fue una de las que mejor críticas obtuvo en su primera temporada en el 2013- que aborda temas relacionados con la cárcel como el sistema penitenciario norteamericano, el lesbianismo, la represión sexual, el abuso de poder o la corrupción policial.

Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.

La serie se centra en el centro de detención Wentworth y en cómo sus reclusas, oficiales y abogados deben enfrentar día con día sus problemas.

Algunas de las historias se centran en Bea Smith y que es encerrada en espera de juicio por el intento de asesinato de su marido y debe aprender cómo es la vida en la cárcel.

Una adaptación moderna y a la vez secuela de la icónica serie "Prisioner".

Drama set in a women's prison in Germany. Susanne Teubner, a sympathetic young woman who has killed her husband in an affect, is poorly advised by her lawyer and sentenced to life imprisonment for willful murder. The arrival in prison is a shock to her. Resigned and exhausted, she endures the degrading admission procedure. She doesn't notice that the young doctor Dr. Beck immediately felt more than professional interest for her.

Marie Lamontagne, a widowed mother of two in her forties, confesses to a murder she didn't commit to protect her daughter. Thrust into brutally unfamiliar and hostile surroundings, she first learns survival, then confronts the biggest challenge of her life: bonding with her fellow inmates and helping them take back control of their lives.

Tras una fatídica discusión doméstica, una entregada madre acaba en la cárcel y lucha por sobrevivir con el único deseo de reunirse con su hija.

Wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit, 13 year old Guadalupe Santos is sentenced to 30 years in jail, while in jail she gives birth to a baby girl who is taken from her by her older sister Milagros. 15 years later she escapes jail and meets with Daniel Moncada who turns out to be the brother of the man she was accused of killing.

A drama anthology that serves up a raw slice of real life in Modern Britain.

Una serie que profundiza en la vida dentro una cárcel de mujeres y sus casos de rehabilitación y adicciones. Ellas no solamente tienen conflictos con la justicia, tambien lo tiene con ellas mismas...

When their parents died at birth, three sisters were sent to orphanages and were later adopted into three different homes with different backgrounds. When one of the sisters gets sent to prison for killing her stepmother, but one of the other two sisters tell officials she committed the crime to save her sister from going to jail. The youngest sister forges evidence to save them both, but gets caught and gets sent to jail, too. This television series uses women in jail as its storyline, describing the dark side of women in prison.

Hairdresser Suus ends up in jail after attempting to murder her husband.

Esta ácida comedia muestra los altibajos de la vida en prisión a través de Laura Willis, que da un giro a su carrera cuando se pone al frente de una cárcel de mujeres.

En la cárcel del condado de Sacramento, las reclusas luchan por el poder y se oponen a la autoridad, mientras intentan impedir que el encierro les quite el brillo.

New modern women's prison in Hämeenlinna received new residents in late 2020. Prisoners Lilja, Jane and Mirella are moving in from the temporary facilities with anticipation, while the staff are trying to adapt to the changing conditions and different working spaces.

With exclusive access to HMP Durham, this series offers a rare insight into the challenges that prison staff face daily. Filmed over seven months, Prison tells the human story on both sides of the door, from the perspectives of staff and prisoners, and reveals the issues that they all face.