Newbies – Wyoming State Penitentiary
Wyoming stows all their worst inmates in the isolated, windblown prairie town of Rawlins; the trouble is, it’s so isolated not enough people live there to staff the Wyoming State Penitentiary. Facing desperate understaffing and overcrowding, Wyoming went to extreme measures, recruiting correctional officers from economically depressed areas elsewhere in the United States.
Thirty new officer recruits came to Rawlins with one thing in common: none of them had law enforcement experience to help them police the prison’s convicted murderers, rapists and child molesters. We follow three new recruits into the fire where they face the challenges of officer training, manipulative inmates, and working in a dangerous environment where ‘escape’ and ‘murder’ are realities.