Prison Break is a USA Network television series that premiered in 2005. Created by Paul T. Scheuring, the show follows the story of two brothers, Michael Scofield (played by Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows (played by Dominic Purcell). Michael, a genius engineer, gets himself incarcerated in Fox River State Penitentiary to break out his brother Lincoln, who has been wrongly convicted of murder.