Michael had just been sentenced to five years for armed robbery, but what the judge didn't know was that Michael had intentionally gotten himself incarcerated. He had broken his own arm and tattooed the prison's layout on his body, planning to break out his brother, Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell), who was on death row for a crime he didn't commit.
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Season 1 is widely considered the peak of the series, praised for its "crackerjack premise" and suspenseful storytelling. Michael had just been sentenced to five years