Season 2: Trailer

It all started with a photograph. A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. A photograph of a group of men on the roof of that prison holding a bedsheet scrawled with a message: "Pray for us." In the first episode of the new season of White Lies, hosts Chip Br ...  Show more

The story of the men on the roof didn't start with that prison takeover in 1991. It didn't start when they were detained in federal prisons. And it didn't start when the government made a secret list of their names in 1984. Instead, it started in the spring of 1980, with one of t ...  Show more

It all started with a photograph. A photograph from 1991 of a prison takeover in rural Alabama. A photograph of a group of men on the roof of that prison holding a bedsheet scrawled with a message: "Pray for us." In the first episode of the new season of White Lies, hosts Chip Br ...  Show more

July 6th: William Eugene Hall Arrested (1988) What happens when dangerous men manage to escape the confines of prison walls? On July 6th 1988 a man was finally arrested after weeks on the run. A timeframe in which he was able to take the lives of 2 helpless individuals.  https:// ...  Show more

In 1999 John Killick and his then-girlfriend Lucy Dudko pulled off the most daring prison break in Australian history when Lucy hijacked a helicopter and landed it in Silverwater prison before she and John flew to freedom. John tells us everything that went down before the big ev ...  Show more

In March 1973 guards went on strike at Walpole maximum security prison in the US state of Massachussetts, and the prisoners took over. For the next three months the inmates, organised in the National Prisoners Reform Association, ran daily life in the prison. They were helped by ...  Show more