1. Brady

After being linked to more than 100 robberies, Mikel Brady shoots an interstate trooper and later leads a violent prison escape attempt with three accomplices, killing four staff members before being recaptured.

2. Escobar

After murdering his aunt and uncle, Ramon Escobar rampages across Los Angeles, bludgeoning five strangers with a baseball bat and bolt cutters. Even prison cannot stop him - he strangles his cellmate.

3. Beamon

Rocky Beamon lures a woman into the woods outside Naples, Florida, and drowns her there. Once in prison, he brutally kills two fellow inmates - and vows to kill again.

4. Jenkins

Born into a notorious family, Erica Jenkins goes on a murder spree in Omaha, Nebraska that shocks the nation. Behind bars, she continues her streak of violence, attacking corrections officers and hospitalizing inmates.

5. Gardner

Willing to kill for just $20, Joshua Dewayne Gardner commits his first murder at 24 in Hernando County, Florida. Even behind bars, he can't contain his rage, brutally beating a fellow inmate to death.

7. Romo

Feared crime boss Ezequiel Romo ruthlessly runs the streets of L.A. - even from behind bars. Leading the Blythe Street gang from his cell, coldly ordering the murders of anyone who stands in his way.

8. Watson

Nearing the end of a lengthy prison sentence, Curtis Ray Watson does the unthinkable: he sexually assaults and murders a prison administrator in West Tennessee State Penitentiary, before escaping and going on a four-day run.

9. Maugaotega

Convicted of 22 felonies, Miti Maugaotega Jr. receives one of the longest prison sentences in Hawaii history. Behind bars, he joins a prison gang and becomes a tornado of death and destruction.

10. Berget

After shooting two people, Rodney Berget kidnaps and sexually assaults a gas station clerk. South Dakota prison struggles to contain him. His final attempt involves the sadistic murder of a corrections officer.