TV presenter Katie Piper returns with another documentary series, Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana, on U&W in 2025. Following Katie Piper: Jailhouse Mums, Piper once again examines the lives of incarcerated women, focusing on inmates at New Orleans Parish Prison.
Across four episodes, Piper will explore the cases of these women, seeking to understand the circumstances and motivations behind their serious and shocking crimes. The series aims to offer insight into the myriad factors influencing individuals’ paths in life.
Piper said of the series: “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 second series with Flicker and U&W – they are an all-female team that has empathy and storytelling as the heart of what they do. 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.”
Katie Piper: Locked Up in Louisiana is produced by Flicker for U&W. The series is commissioned by Helen Nightingale, Head of Factual and Factual Entertainment, and Kirsty Hanson, Senior Commissioning Editor. It is ordered for U&W by Adam Collings, Channel Director, and Hilary Rosen, Director of Commissioning.
