In 1998, a California woman was imprisoned with her children in a garage. She was rescued seven months later after secretly writing letters and handing them off to a postal worker.

If you fill a prison with the nation’s most dangerous people, that prison, naturally, will be a dangerous place. And even with Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary's notoriously strong security, those people occasionally strike with sensational violence. We look at some of the most grisly murders that took place at the hands of inmates at 'The Rock.'

For incarcerated women, childbirth can be very different from state to state.

They committed their crimes before they were old enough to vote. Then they were condemned to die in prison. As of 2018, there were approximately 2,100 juvenile lifers behind bars. A&E True Crime looks at some of the juvenile offenders whose landmark cases have changed the law of the land.

To find out how one might escape a captor, A&E True Crime spoke with Lt. Chris Zimmerman, commander of the New York Police Department's Hostage-Negotiation Team.