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Lockup: Season 3

12 episodes Premiered Sep 7, 2007 Updated Oct 3, 2026

Previously on Lockup

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Lockup Season 2.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (9): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S3·E1 Mytharc

San Quentin: Extended Stay - The Gang's All Here

Sep 7, 2007 · 30 min

The violent history of San Quentin State Prison in California.

S3·E2 Core

Extended Stay: Killing Time

Sep 14, 2007 · 30 min

Inmates at San Quentin State Prison find ways to fight boredom.

S3·E3 Core

San Quentin: Extended Stay - The Conjugal Visit

Sep 21, 2007 · 30 min

Inmates receive visitors during their prison stays.

S3·E4 Core

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Bad Boys, Bad Boys

Sep 28, 2007 · 30 min

A dangerous combination of gangs, drugs and boredom encourages inmates to commit violent offenses in prison.

S3·E5 Core

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Weapons 101

Oct 5, 2007 · 30 min

A 20-year-old inmate speaks about how he grew up on the streets and what motivates him to turn his life around.

S3·E6 Core

San Quentin: Extended Stay - Slammin' in the Slammer

Oct 12, 2007 · 30 min

The prison's annual poetry slam.

S3·E7 Core

Holman: Extended Stay - He Takes No Prisoners

Dec 10, 2007 · 30 min

Grantt Culliver controls the disruptive inmates of Holman Correctional Facility.

S3·E8 Core

Holman: Extended Stay - Locked Up Love

Dec 11, 2007 · 30 min

Relationships both inside and outside the prison walls.

S3·E9 Core

Holman: Extended Stay - Snake and Fluffy

Dec 12, 2007 · 30 min

Dangerous inmates are segregated from the rest of the prison population.

S3·E10 Core

Holman: Extended Stay - The Shakedown

Dec 17, 2007 · 30 min

Correctional officers search prisoners for weapons.

S3·E11 Mytharc

Holman: Extended Stay - Til Death Do Us Part

Dec 18, 2007 · 30 min

Serving life sentences or death sentences in prison.

S3·E12 Mytharc

Holman: Extended Stay - You Wanna Work Where?

Dec 28, 2007 · 30 min

Unexcused absences create staff shortages at Alabama's Holman Correctional Facility.