1. Dirt
Dirt is an American television serial broadcast on the FX network. It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: drrt and Now.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
2. Oz
The daily lives of prisoners in Emerald City, an experimental unit of the Oswald Maximum Security Prison where ingroups - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorize their mutual enemies.
It has an average vote of 8.028 on TMDB.
3. The Five Juanas (La venganza de las Juanas)
Five women with the same birthmark set out to unravel the truth about their pasts and discover a tragic web of lies spun by a powerful politician.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
4. Boys Banged Up
Boys Banged Up is an unflinching insight into life inside a prison for young offenders .
5. René Lévesque, héros malgré lui (René Lévesque, héros malgré lui)
(René Lévesque, héros malgré lui)
It has an average vote of 5.2 on TMDB.
6. Prisoner (Huset)
Sammi, Henrik, Miriam, and Gert are prison officers and colleagues in an old, worn-down Danish prison. Their work environment is raw and hostile, and their respective lives outside the prison walls are filled with conflict, secrets, and loneliness for very different reasons. Secrets, that will soon resurface and have great consequences not only for the four prisoners, but for everyone inside and outside the walls.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
7. Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom that was broadcast on BBC One from 1989 until 1998 and on ITV from 2013. Starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph, it was created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who also wrote some of the episodes along with many other writers.</p><p></p><p>The first episode sees sisters Tracey Stubbs and Sharon Theodopolopodos brought together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the later series the location is changed to Hainault. The series ended on Christmas Eve 1998 after a 9-year-run.
It has an average vote of 6.048 on TMDB.
8. Brotherhood
A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his turf, fight for survival on opposite sides of the law. In their ruthless quest for power, the entire Caffee family is driven to lies, betrayal and infidelity -- threatening to tear them and the city of Providence, RI apart.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Prison Break
Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
It has an average vote of 8.09 on TMDB.
10. Court Martial: Soldiers Behind Bars
Life at the Military Corrective Training Centre with soldiers who've broken the law.
11. The Yard (Avlu)
After a fateful domestic clash, a devoted mother finds herself in prison and fighting to survive in hopes of reuniting with her daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
12. The Sculptress
When author Rosalind Leigh is assigned to write a book about the life of Olive Martin, a woman sentenced to life in prison for killing her mother and sister, she develops a relationship with Olive and is soon convinced of her innocence. With the help of restaurant owner and former policeman Hal Hawksley, she sets out to prove it and undo what she sees as a miscarriage of justice.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
13. Orange Is the New Black
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
It has an average vote of 7.668 on TMDB.
14. Banana Fish (バナナフィッシュ)
Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Iraq has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands—and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance.
It has an average vote of 8.578 on TMDB.
15. Tex Brown
Tex is released from prison and enters the new world where he enters a journey of finding himself.</p><p></p><p>Tex Brown is the story of the character Tex from the series About Him, 15 years after. He is a prison inmate serving time for attempted murder when he lashed out on a gay basher and almost kills him. Tex is a dark soul and is very disconnected with the world because of his past. His life changes when he is released from prison on a new program and has to transition to becoming a law abiding citizen again. Johnson is assigned to his case as a parole officer and is challenged to breakdown the walls to help him heal from his past.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
16. Prisoner: Cell Block H
Prisoner is an Australian soap opera that is set in the Wentworth Detention Centre, a fictional women's prison.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
17. The Long Firm
The lives of characters who live, love and suffer through their association with the charismatic charms of gangster Harry Starks.
It has an average vote of 7.556 on TMDB.
18. Sol Negro (Sol Negro)
Sol Negro was an Argentine television miniseries that aired on the América TV channel in late 2003. The plot focuses on the story of a young man who is admitted to a neuropsychiatric hospital to evade prison, and revolves around his insertion in the circle of inmates of the hospital and a complicity network to take away his share of a family inheritance.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
19. Bodyguard
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.
It has an average vote of 7.777 on TMDB.
20. Green Warriors (Vert de rage)
Martin Boudot, investigative journalist, investigates major environmental scandals around the world: river contamination, air pollution, radioactivity, illegal exploitation of resources, toxic waste...
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.