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AGENCY IN CRISIS –Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports on thenation's federal prison system, long considered broken andopaque, and goes inside a women's prison in Aliceville,Ala., where she speaks with inmates who candidly share theirconcerns about the institution. Vega interviews the womancharged with reforming the Bureau of Prisons, director ColettePeters, as her agency is facing a major staffing crisis,aging and deteriorating prison infrastructure and an alarmingpattern of abuse that has persisted for years. Natalie JimenezPeel is the producer.INTERPOL –Reporting from Interpolheadquarters in Lyon, France, Bill Whitaker examines theinternational law enforcement agency's successes fightingglobal crime, as well as its failures keeping authoritariancountries from misusing its resources. Russia, China andTurkey, among others, have used Interpol's worldwide "wantedperson" alerts, called red notices, to arrest dissidents andother innocent people who fled their countries. Graham Messickand Jack Weingart are the producers.MODERN ARK –Lions fromwar-torn Ukraine, abused bears from a Korean medicalfacility, exotic big cats from Netflix's "Tiger King" pens inOklahoma; they're among the many animals rescued by amodern-day Noah named Pat Craig, and brought back to hissprawling animal sanctuary in Colorado. Correspondent JonWertheim meets Craig and tells the story of his most ambitiousmission yet: a high-stakes rescue at a zoo in Puerto Rico.David M. Levine is the producer.