Katie Piper returns to U&W to go behind bars in Louisiana

Notorious New Orleans women’s prison to open its doors for new documentary series…

TV presenter, Katie Piper returns to U&W to once again uncover life for women behind bars in the USA in a four-part production.

Katie Piper:

“Off camera I am committed to working with women in prisons to understand motivation and help rehabilitation, and I’m really proud to be making this series with Flicker and U&W – they are an all-female team that has empathy and storytelling at the heart of what they do.”

Across the four fascinating episodes Katie will meet the inmates at New Orleans Parish Prison, where she will delve into inmates cases and try to uncover what drove these women to commit the serious and shocking crimes they’ve been accused of.

Katie Piper returns to U&W to go behind bars in Louisiana

Katie Piper previously presented Katie Piper: Jailhouse Mums for U&W Similarly, this new series is produced by Flicker. The new documentary series is commissioned by Helen Nightingale, head of factual and factual entertainment with Kirsty Hanson, senior commissioning editor, and ordered for U&W by Adam Collings, channel director, and Hilary Rosen, director of commissioning.

Katie Piper: Locked Up In Louisiana will air on U and U&W in 2025.

Katie Piper:

“We travelled to America and in one prison I try to understand what has led the women we meet to this point, what circumstances have they been living in, what trauma they experienced and how their lives have been affected. For some this isn’t simple, and we consider how a wide range of factors effect different people in different ways.

“I hope that it gives viewers an insight into something that isn’t perhaps as straightforward as you would initially think, and gives us all some pause for thought.”