Breakout Kings and White Collar added to my list

Here's a new twist to my TV series show that I have been watching as of late. I have been watching police procedural shows that pertains to a more "conventional" methods of catching the bad guys. And now I have two new shows to add my "TV Shows to watch" bucket list and these are Breakout Kings and White Collar. The  theme of this shows are basically federal agencies are using the unconventional methods of catching criminals by using the same criminals in exchange for reduced prison sentence and/or avoid solitary confinement  altogether. 

White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con-man Neal Caffrey and Tim DeKay as Special Agent Peter Burke. It premiered on October 23, 2009. On September 27, 2010, the USA Network renewed White Collar for a third season with 16 new episodes. The show's main protagonist Neal Caffrey a con-man, forger and thief, is captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse with the FBI. With four months left while serving a four-year sentence, he escapes from a maximum-security federal prison to find Kate, his ex-girlfriend. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who initially captured Caffrey, finds him at a dead end in his search and returns Caffrey to prison. This time, Caffrey gives Burke information about evidence in another case; however, this information comes with a price: Burke must have a meeting with Caffrey. At this meeting, Caffrey proposes a deal: he will help Burke catch other criminals as part of a work-release program. Burke agrees, after some hesitation. Through the successful apprehending of several white-collar criminals, Caffrey has proven to Burke that he will help him, and that he will not try to escape again. This begins an unconventional but successful partnership.

Breakout Kings on the other hand is a virtual polar opposite of White Collar in terms of the type of criminals they employed and the methods use to capture is somewhat of "blue collar" and the federal agency in connection are the US Marshals. The story goes like this: In order to catch escaped convicts, a squad of U.S. Marshals makes a special deal with several current prisoners . If they agree to help, their sentences will be reduced by one month and they will be transferred to a minimum-security facility. However, if any of them should try to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled. The show premiere last March 6, 2011).