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| Lockup | |
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| 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) |
| Original release | |
| Network | MSNBC |
| Release | June 4, 2005 (2005-06-04) – February 11, 2017 (2017-02-11) |
Lockup is aprisondocumentary series, produced by44 Blue Productions, which airs onMSNBC. Titles within the franchise includeLockup: Raw,Lockup: World Tour,Lockup: Extended Stay,Lockup: Disturbing the Peace,Lockup: Special Investigation, andLife After Lockup.
The variousLockup series explore jail and prison facilities throughout the United States, profiling 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:
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 ofLockup was announced on June 29, 2016, with the twenty-fifth season as the series' last after twelve years.[1][better source needed]
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