Lifers: Behind Bars

Episode 1 follows newly-convicted killers from sentencing at court through the system as they are helped to face up to years behind bars. As one officer explains. These ‘lifers’ speak candidly about their crimes, their struggles in prison, and their remorse – or lack of it.

Episode two reveals the day-to-day reality for some of the five hundred men in HMP Shotts, Scotland’s only prison exclusively for long-term offenders, who combined are serving well over four thousand years in custody.