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Lockup Pendleton Juvenile Extended Stay: Under Pressure
During our 6 months inside, we learned some days can be even more chaotic than most. As one official says, "When it rains, we don’t have enough buckets.

Lockup Pendleton Juvenile Extended Stay: Everyone’s Got Baggage
Pendleton Juvenile is the last stop in Indiana for young offenders who have committed serious crimes. The staff is determined to rehabilitate impulsive teens who are often angry and violent. It helps them to keep in mind that one of the major sources of anger for these young people is what they've gone through at home.

The Hunt for the Texas 7
MSNBC tells the story of the most audacious prison escape in U.S. history. Premieres Sunday, September 28 at 10 p.m. ET.

Inside the making of 'The Hunt for the Texas 7'
'I see victims on both sides,' says the director of a documentary on the case

Caught on Camera: Sinister, Strange, Shocking
In this episode of ‘Caught on Camera,’ watch as a Niagara Falls rescue force uses teamwork in an attempt to save a man from the 180-foot drop into the icy depths below.

Mississippi Cold Case
Follow CBC documentary filmmaker David Ridgen and Thomas Moore as they search for clues to the unsolved murders of Moore's brother Charles and Henry Dee who were just 19 years old when they were allegedly killed by the Ku Klux Klan on May 2, 1964.

Born in the Wrong Body: All in the Family
By the time Julia reached the age of twelve, she was living as a boy named Chris. Find out what happens when her mother enlists someone to guide Julia through the process.

The Santa Strangler
Adolph Laudenberg had secrets: terrible stories of raping and murdering women. But were they just an old man's delusions?

Biden ‘wears his emotions on his sleeves’
Just who is Joe Biden? MSNBC takes a closer look at the life and career of Barack Obama’s running mate.

The vetting of Sarah Palin
MSNBC examines the public vetting of John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska.

Caught on Camera: Teens Gone Wild
It's happening all across the country. Out of control teens attacking teachers and beating each other to a pulp. They capture it all on video camera, and upload the footage to the Web, for their 15 minutes of fame.

Lockup Extended Stay Corcoran: Lockdown
No one foresaw that the greatest threat to Corcoran's staff might come from an event in a California prison more than 100 miles away.

Lockup San Quentin Extended Stay: The Gang's All Here
The prison’s police force is on full alert after a gang member is stabbed, likely by one of his own. It’s a fairly typical day inside a prison plagued by gang violence.

Born in the Wrong Body: A Change of Heart
What happens when you change your gender and then have a change of heart?

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The Hunt for the Texas 7

	The hunt for the ‘Texas 7’ MSNBC tells the story of the most audacious prison escape in U.S. history. “The Hunt for the Texas 7,” premieres Sunday at 10 PM.
	The daring escape of the ‘Texas 7’ Seven hardened convicts carry out a plan to escape from a maximum-security prison in Texas. This is the story of their escape - told in their own words.
	Authorities hunt the ‘Texas 7’ Jan. 2, 2001: Appearing on TODAY, the police chief of Irving, Texas discusses the search for the escaped prisoners.
	The manhunt continues Jan. 5, 2001: The NBC Nightly News reports on the continuing search for the “Texas 7.”
	Police apprehend part of the ‘Texas 7’ Jan. 22, 2001: The NBC Nightly News reports on the capture of a portion of the “Texas 7."
	Two of ‘Texas 7’ remain at large Jan. 23, 2001: The NBC Nightly News reports on the two members of the “Texas 7,” who continue to elude authorities.
	The final capture Jan. 24, 2001: The NBC Nightly News reports on the apprehension of the “Texas 7.”

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	Against all odds, McCain fights for GOP nod A closer look at the life and campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
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Accolades for Doc Block

MSNBC's documentary "War Zone Diary" has been awarded the the 2008 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. The award honors the best in television and radio journalism in an effort to bring the work to public and professional attention.

In addition, Richard Engel was awarded the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his reporting in "War Zone Diary." The award is given to the individual or team who best displayed moral, ethical or physical courage in the puruit of a story or series of stories.

MSNBC's documentary "No Place for a Child" has been awarded the 2007 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism which honors distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and families. The judges said, "Stories about foster children are usually predictable in their storylines, but this documentary takes the unusual step of looking inside the courtrooms that rule the children’s lives. The producers provide a thorough and unflinching portrait of families involved in foster care. Happy endings seem elusive, but this production allows outsiders to perhaps understand why."

"Mississippi Cold Case," the documentary film that helped reopen and solve a civil rights era lynching, has won the highest honor bestowed by the IRE (Investigative Reporters & Editors.) It not only claimed their top prize for network/syndicated television, but also received the prestigious IRE medal given each year to a select few pieces of investigative journalism.

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Witness to Jonestown
Thirty years ago, more than 900 people died after drinking a lethal concoction mixed by Jonestown cult preacher Jim Jones. Witnesses recall the events in this special preview of the MSNBC documentary “Witness to Jonestown,” which premieres in November.

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Born in the Wrong Body

	'Born in the Wrong Body: A Change of Heart' What happens when a person decides to switch to a different gender — and then realizes it was a mistake? Watch the full documentary online.
	All in the Family, Part 1 We meet what looks like the typical all-American family; but typical may not be the best way to describe them. Jeana, the 13-year-old daughter, is bipolar, and her nine-year-old brother Brendan has mild autism, but it is Chris's problem that would throw any parent for a loop. Chris was born a girl- but from an early age has wanted to be a boy.
	All in the Family, Part 2 Chris grows close to Evan Davis, who his mother Karina found when she began looking for someone to help her child transition. At the time Evan agreed to mentor Chris, he had been living as a man for only two years.
	All in the Family, Part 3 For many teenagers puberty is a difficult time. But for transgender kids, like Chris Mari, it can be absolutely frightening. The growing unease over being a boy in a girl's body soon became too much for Chris to handle. So Karina had to make a decision that would fundamentally affect the rest of her child's life. The choice was excruciating but unavoidable.
	All in the Family, Part 4 Evan might have become like a parent to Chris, but Chris still had a biological father- Fernando- in Italy. And in the summer of 2006, Fernando came for a visit.
	All in the Family, Part 5 By 2007, 14-year-old Chris still had one unfulfilled wish. The hormone blockers that Chris took prevented his body from turning into a girl's- at least for a while. But as he got older they weren't enough- and they did not help him develop as a boy. Chris needed shots of the male hormone testosterone or he might be a boy getting a period.
	All in the Family, Part 6 It was no surprise, perhaps, that two transgender males, 15-year-old Chris and 53-year old Evan, would become very close, but nobody expected the relationship that would develop between Evan and Chris' mother, Karina- especially not Karina's own sister, Cathy.
	Tackling the first day of school Chris and Karina discuss the transition into a new school.
	Budding relationships Evan, Karina and Chris talk about how the relationship between the adults began to flourish.

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	Lockup: Holman Extended Stay In the Holman Correctional Facility, every day is a battle to survive. The extremely under-staffed, all-male prison is the home of Alabama's death chamber. Most of the inmates are lifers or are on death row and will only get out in a coffin.
	Lockup: San Quentin Extended Stay With its own zip code, almost 6,000 inmates, and more than 1500 staff members who walk through its gates every morning, a typical day in San Quentin is anything but typical.
	An unsettling realization Web-only video: For the crew taping inside San Quentin, the distractions are endless and unsettling.
	Slide show: Behind the scenes at San Quentin

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Images: Hooked on bodybuilding
See photos of female bodybuilders we encountered while producing "Hooked: Muscle Women."

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Hooked on tattoos
See photos of some of the body art aficionados we encountered while producing the documentary, "Hooked: Tattoos Head to Toe."