Life Inside America's Most Dangerous Women's Prison (With Trevor McDonald) | Absolute Documentaries

Published 2021-07-11
Sir Trevor McDonald meets more inmates inside two of Indiana's most dangerous women's prisons. Among them are Dawn Hopkins, who was sentenced to life for murdering her three-month-old son, Sarah Pender who even escaped from prison, and Sarah `Cindy' White, who was incarcerated as a teenager and will spend the rest of her life behind bars.

The veteran broadcaster also hears the remarkable story of Linda Darby who, after escaping from jail in 1972, spent the next 35 years on the run - before the law finally caught up with her.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Vianeyregina
    Im so weak.. I was in jail two weeks and i wanted to die! Never again. Idc what happens to me im never breaking the law again.. I lost so much weight and cried everyday. It was one of the worst times in my life. God saved me and set me on the correct path. Forever grateful. 💖
  • @Rarba786
    Trevor is in a league of his own. Informative, compassionate, great listener and yet asking questions that need to be asked.
  • @carlyjoy17
    Trevor is a great person. Seeing these women as people instead of just an "addict" or whatever their crime was. Like he asked the young woman if she had a drug dependency, not asking "are you a drug addict". The world needs more Trevors.
  • @JJJJ-gl2uf
    You gotta love how these corrections officers defended the actions of their corrupt and now imprisoned colleague. "He was having problems at home" and "Pender manipulated him", "she preyed on him"...... face the facts: Spitler was greedy, placed making money above his duties as a CO, he was corrupt to the core, and he helped a convicted murderer escape. There's no defending that. Period.
  • @JD-dh7bk
    Trevor is such a kind man. He is really good at interviewing.
  • @wot4922
    The reaction of the PO is truly amazing. You would think that there was never a corrupt prison official ever.
  • @frasersgirl4383
    God, they made that officer that helped her escape sound like a blameless child. He’s a full grown man who knew exactly what he was doing. Quit trying to baby talk the reporter about what he did.
  • It says a volumes about the staff that refuses to admit that one of their own is directly responsible for an escape. The officers that were interviewed should be fired.
  • @tamvee
    "She preyed on him". Please, he used and manipilated her just as much as she used and manipulated him. Poor little officer fell in love and was blinded.
  • @raqlew7021
    I love Trevor as a person and Interviewer. He brings so much humility to ever situation.
  • @verukasault9065
    Interviewer: "So, the bullet hit her in the face." Prisoner: "Yes!"
  • @lalamazu
    Where is the next episode? You guys got me hooked.
  • I was in Indiana Girls School, Women’s Prison AND Rockville. There were PLENTY of officers and staff quite willing to do bad with little girls and women who had nothing but their wit and wiles to get out of a jam. I’ll tell you this much… I’ve been out 24 years and am never going back although I still have nightmares about it.
  • Anyone notice in the end interview with Sarah Pender she had to make herself cry when Trevor asked about the victims but she recovered super fast, then he asked about the sentence she received and then the tears fell like rain!! What a monster!!
  • @kaydublin5164
    God, these ladies don’t realize how valuable their lives are, they are wasting them, so sad, and some have kids, I definitely have been fortunate to have been raised in a wonderful family and in a beautiful area of the country. Good luck to these ladies, I hope things get better.😢
  • @darleneww3670
    Pender still believes she’s smarter than everyone else.
  • What I find disturbing about all these women is they find it funny or amusing that they committed crimes as if they were proud of themselves for it. They don't seem to have a grip on reality.