Ten petty British criminals are sent to one of America's toughest penal establishments for a short, sharp shocking experience of life behind bars.
The criminals are transported to the notorious Maricopa County jail, known as the 'Alcatraz of Arizona'. Under the rule of notoriously tough Sheriff Joe Arpaio, these British bad lads will undergo a series of terrifying and ultimately life-changing experiences as they discover the sort of existence faced by some of America’s most formidable criminals.
Living alongside proper cons in the cramped and squalid conditions, the participants will quickly find out that their reputations back home don’t count for much in an Arizona jail.
They’ll be subjected to the same hard labour endured by real-life criminals and they’ll be introduced to the ‘buddy system’, which will see them paired up with genuine inmates.
Faced with a wake-up call of this magnitude, and given the chance to see at first hand the devastation wrought upon the lives of offenders by their misdeeds, the participants will have no choice but to drastically reassess their own lives.
