11 Provocative Prisoners on TV

Cookie spent 17 years in prison for drug hustling charges that gave her and Lucious the money to start Empire. Needless to say, she did very well for herself since getting out. With the tables turned, it will be intresting to see how long her ex sneers at her from behind bars, especially now that she's got her groove back!

Michael was an odd one, given that he deliberately sent himself to prison in order to break out his brother (another sexy bugger), Lincoln Burrows, before he was executed for a crime he didn't commit. That seems like a decent reason. Oh yeah, he had his body tattooed with a blueprint of the prison. Smart! Good looking, too. No wonder they're reconsidering yet another go of this one!

Thanks to his wife, Gabrielle, and her infidelity, Carlos suffered from some anger management issues. He took to beating people up and was eventually charged with hate crimes when he assaulted the wrong man for sleeping with Gaby. I thought he went back to prison later in the series, but darn if I can find a record of it on the internet. Has it been that long since the show was on?!

Emily confessed to murdering Victoria Grayson in the Revenge Series Finale, although it was all a setup for Victoria to come back as Mary Gaines and get her big revengenda on Emily. Nonetheless, Emily was sent (in no time flat, mind you) to maximum security prison, just like on a Monopoly board! She didn't get to stop and collect a thing before being sent. Even in prison orange, Emily (or Amanda) looked fabulous.

O'Reily was an Irish-American inmate in the OZ Maximum Security Penitentiary, sentenced to 12 years to life for killing two people while under the influence and then to 40 to life after confessing he had his brother, Cyril, kill someone for him. A brain damaged Cyril later arrived at OZ to serve time with Ryan. Fun fact, he was the cause of nearly every death in the first season of OZ. If you've never seen this show, there's no time like the present to hit HBO Now to watch it. He was a terrible criminal, but had that bad boy spirit you just couldn't resist.

Alex is back in prison for Orange is the New Black Season 3 and part of it is because of Piper. It's probably down to the drug charges again, but much like Alex, it's easier to wonder exactly how she wound up back there. She seems softer and more vulnerable than ever before, really willing to change. It's almost impossible to imagine her going back to her line of work again, which is refreshing.

Will Graham was framed for incredibly gruesome murders by the delectable Hannibal Lecter and kept in the most bizarre fashion in prison because of how terrible people thought he was. Yet one still has to wonder if Will could bring himself to kill Hannibal if given the chance (legally, of course). It's a truly interesting relationship. Will has such soulful eyes, doesn't he?

Hannah was a killer and a confident of Dexter's who also poisoned his sister before winding up in prison. She eventually escaped and is the person who raised Dexter's son after he headed off to be a lumberjack when Deb died and he "died" in a hurricane. WTF, right? Pretty girls always come out ahead, even when they're killers. That must be the moral to the story. Or something.

Cary wound up in jail for supposedly giving advice on how to evade arrest to Lemond Bishop's men. The entire story was surreal an kicked off The Good Wife Season 6 in very odd fashion, but it finally gave much needed screen time to Matt Czuchry, so we're not going to complain too much.

Joy was charged with grand theft auto, kidnapping and assault after she unsuccessfully tried to get a refund for an automatic television cabinet she purchased and decided to steal a van to get her money back. Nobody on the show was going to win an award for brilliance, but she was still hot!

House went to prison for using his car as a weapon, when he crashed it straight into his will they/won't they love, Dr. Cuddy's house. After all the crap he pulled, it was a stupid act of passion that sent him away. That was one way to make a decision about the two characters, I suppose!