Explores life behind the walls of three maximum security prisons in Australia, and the harsh realities that inmates and corrections officers have to face.

Inmates are woken, marched from their cells, and strip-searched in the ongoing battle to keep drugs out of jails.

COVID restrictions stop visits from friends and family, and also lead to a lack of drugs getting into the jail, with prisoners suffering withdrawals and starting to riot.

Everyone's on high alert as 12 maximum security inmates are transported into Wellington prison for the annual footy game against Macquarie prison. But not all the inmates are sticking to the rules of the game.

Officer David organises for a father to see his teenage son who freaks out being behind bars for the first time; a seasoned rule breaker is stunned that his driving offence this time has landed him in jail.

Officers wage a constant battle to find inmates with contraband. Inmates are clever at hiding it, often concealing illegal items in a body cavity, but the officers now have a new weapon: a full-body scanner.