Alcatraz…Devil’s Island…Botany Bay: these prisons, among the most feared on Earth, give a whole new meaning to the term “hard time.”  They didn’t merely cage society’s worst, they shattered their spirits. 

Journey to Devil’s Island, a tiny French penal colony on the edge of the Amazon rainforest that was literally a “Hell on Earth”.  Explore The Rock’s greatest mystery in Beneath Alcatraz.  Startling, new high-tech evidence may finally answer the question of what happened to three convicts who made an incredible jailbreak in 1962.  From Mary Bryant, who fled an Australian penal colony in the 18^th century and made an epic 3,000-mile sea voyage to Henri (“Papillon”) Charriere, who broke out of the misery of Devil’s Island, relive amazing flights to freedom in Jailbreak.

This is the closest look viewers will get – or would ever want to! – at these notorious lockups.  

approx. 150 mins. col.