Amir Ouazzani shows how being a gymnast can come in handy when handcuffed, and why his arresting officer called him Houdini.
When he was 17, El Sawyer shot someone who was trying to rob him and his brother. After being arrested, they were taken into interrogation and what happened there is a testament to brotherly love.
A broken system fails to protect Shawnda Chapman Brown, who gets beaten by her boyfriend, but she is sent to jail.
Police find a suspicious combination of items, including an ax, wigs, red paint and syringes, after pulling over comic and carpenter Jordan Jensen, but she gets off easy with laughter.
Graffiti artist Lee Trice is arrested because police think he's notorious New York City tagger Dick Chicken.
When Kevin Richards' crush shows up at a party, he's already in handcuffs for trying to save it from aggressive cops, but trying to be the party hero doesn't exactly make him look like Prince Charming.
Hannah Laytner walks into a party with almond milk, then comes out with a beer and gets spotted by campus police.
What is described as an innocuous driving offense leads to a guy's three encounters with cops and his car being torn apart.
Max gets immortalized by a photo shot when he was tackled by officers while protesting police brutality.
Journalist Daniel Genis recounts being sent to solitary confinement four times for the "unauthorized exchange of five human souls" during his decade in a maximum security prison.
An arrest interrupts a the routine of a heroin addict, who describes withdrawal as the flu times a million.
Coss Marte recounts his old life as a New York City drug dealer and the day he was arrested. After doing seven years behind bars, he founded a gym that hires formerly incarcerated individuals to teach fitness.
After two years in prison, Evie Litwok, a Jewish lesbian and daughter to two Holocaust survivors, founds Witness to Mass Incarceration, which advocates for incarcerated women and LGBTQ people.
One minute Jennifer Montano is driving, then the next her life is changed forever, but her terrible mistake gives her a new purpose in life.