Most convicts serve time in jail or prison for crimes where incarceration is an option, but in some cases, judges think quite literally outside the box and issue punishments intended to fit the crime.

Deb Davis of Paws With a Cause, a group that works with six Michigan Department of Corrections facilities to train service and assistance dogs, talks to us about how inmates train the dogs and what inmates and prisons get out of their program.

While one of the biggest drug kingpins in Washington, D.C. remains in a federal penitentiary, his namesake son, Tony Lewis Jr. is helping children with a parent in prison. He talks to us about his struggle getting people to understand that when a person goes to prison, their family goes with them.

There is a history of investigators, reporters, and even regular people (like the volunteers on 60 Days In) going undercover in prison to expose wrongdoing, danger, and bad treatment. Read inspiring stories of intrepid souls who went behind bars to find truth.