was the focus of the documentary series National Geographic Explorer episode "Solitary Confinement". The episode was first broadcast April 11, 2010. The original penitentiary was the subject of the 1948 semi-documentary Canon City, chronicling the December 30, 1947, prison break of 12 inmates. Principal filming was conducted in the prison and environs of Cañon City six months after the actual event. Maximum Insecurity, an Amazon bestseller, gives an inside look at the medical system at the Colorado State Penitentiary. In Tallgrass, a novel by Sandra Dallas, Bobby Archuleta, a beet farmer who confesses to raping and killing his sister-in-law, a teenage girl with polio, is sent to the Colorado State Penitentiary after confessing. Further reading External links Official website References Buildings and structures in Fremont County, Colorado Prisons in Colorado Execution sites in the United States 1993 establishments in Colorado