For six seasons and counting, A&E's '60 Days In' has given TV viewers a unique look into jails across the country, by pointing the cameras on undercover inmates for two-month stretches. Read how the show has helped spur change at some of these facilities.

Sheriff Jonathon Horton talks about his journey from the Navy to Etowah County, and the eye-opening nature of his department's '60 Days In' experience.

Drugs are killing Americans in record numbers, but not everyone is being hit equally hard. Police and public-health workers battling the problem near Interstate Highway I-65—which runs south-to-north through Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana—are at its front lines. The highway is a supply line favored by Mexican cartels flooding Appalachia and the Midwest.

An ex-offender describes learning of his release—and preparing for it—after over three decades behind bars.

The newly elected sheriff talks about his biggest concerns when filming '60 Days In,' the challenges in his facility before filming and the advice he gave this season's participants.

Professors Bryanna Fox and Edelyn Verona of the University of South Florida are leading a project that evaluates all inmates that come through the Pasco County jail to compare people who are arrested for domestic violence to people arrested for burglary to people arrested for murder.

Podcaster Brooke Gittings of 'Convicted,' 'Actual Innocence,' 'Cold Case Files: The Podcast,' and more on the importance of using podcasts to showcase oppression.

The execution of a prisoner on death-row usually results in the beginning of a new trauma for the family members they leave behind.

Richard Lopez, a former prison chaplain, spoke to A&E True Crime about how murderers on death row come to embrace a higher power while awaiting execution.

A&E True Crime spoke with Michael Santos, who spent 25 years in prison, about what it was like to enter a world so dependent on technology after being incarcerated for so long.