As the final rodeo of the season approaches, a rookie takes on the former champ. One inmate learns he will go free after 18 years behind bars.

Slater faces the end to his ten-year marriage, and copes with being a single father. An inmate decides to ride in the rodeo for the first time, while a former champion tries to revive his career and risks fatal injury. Warden Cain combats a smear campaign.

The K9 unit goes on a manhunt in the dead of night. An inmate tries to work his way out of the disciplinary unit. And a prisoner plans a wedding behind bars. But first he's got to get the Warden's approval.

Fruge oversees the processing of 23 new inmates as they begin the rest of their lives in prison. A grandfather and grandson meet for the first time, as two Angola lifers. And a convicted felon is laid to rest in Angola's cemetery.

Slater tries to pull off a public horse auction, but must confront his increasingly troubled home life. Inmates try to move up the ladder at Angola, but find this easier said than done. And a hunger striker gives Warden Cain an ultimatum.

Asst. Warden Cathy Fontenot struggles with being a warden and a mother, while an inmate hopes for a chance to be a father from behind bars. And, when drugs infiltrate the prison, security goes on high alert.

The first rodeo of the season has the inmates psyching themselves up to ride, but the prison's mood changes after a tragedy in Camp J that presents a supreme test for the staff.

A reality series set at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, which features a working farm and, since 1965, the Angola Prison Rodeo, begins with the warden concerned about rising flood waters from the Mississippi River and the possibility of a mass evacuation of thousands of prisoners.