Crime journalist Raphael Rowe goes behind the bars of some of the world's most notorious and toughest prisons. Immersing himself in maximum security facilities around the world to live as a prisoner, he encounters the inmates locked up for their crimes and meets the men and women on the right side of law tasked with keeping the criminals behind bars.
A felon convicted of murder and bearing a death sentence receives a year-long parole thirty years after his initial conviction. However, he reveals an unexpected truth while home with his family.