Prison Break is a USA Network television series that premiered in 2005. The show was created by Paul Scheuring and produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series follows the story of Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller), a brilliant engineer who gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother, Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), who is on death row for a crime he did not commit.