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First steps in the free world | Elliot Crowl | Hard Time S3
After 11 years in prison in Hard Time, he never wants to go back. Elliot Crowl will be released in less than a week. He left his alter ego behind and awaited his release. Elliot…
Never going back | Sean Rockefeller | Hard Time S3
In our documentation series Hard Times, Sean Rockefeller had a difficult time after his release from prison. The registered sex offender looked for ways to escape life in Hard Times, not allowed to live at…
The search for a way out | Christopher Timmreck | Hard Time S3
In Hard Time, Christopher Timmreck is expecting his family. However, the prison suspects him of having a cell phone. Now he is under investigation in Hard Time. Christopher Timmreck, aka Yankee, is released from solitary…
At crossroads to redemption | Eugene Howard | Hard Time S3
Eugene Howard is a newcomer to Earl “Kareem” Smith’s group in Hard Times. When he entered the prison system, Eugene Howard joined a gang. Now he is looking for a way and finds it in…
Daily threat of violence | Randy Cochran| Hard Time S3
“Randy “”Rock”” Cochran from Hard Time works in the kitchen, and he is always respectful to the authorities. Randy “”Rock”” Cochran knows that life in prison is not easy. He got a life sentence when…
The price of leadership behind bars | Earl Smith | Hard Time S3
Earl Smith (“Kareem”) is convicted of murder and must serve life in prison. He robbed a restaurant when he was 22 and killed someone working there. While in prison in Hard Time he turned to…
Payday | Anjail Muhammad | Hard Time S3
In our documentation series Hard Time, Anjail Muhammad is sentenced for murder with life without parole. In prison, Anjail Muhammad still is rather provocative. She tries to get around all restrictions there in Hard Time….
Life as a prison player | Julie Murphy | Hard Time S3
It is Julie Murphy’s third stay in prison, and she knows how things go. In Hard Times, Julie is a well-known inmate, which is not always a good thing. She is known to be a…
Regretting decisions | Amy Price | Hard Time S3
Amy Price was a straight-A student from a loving home, but she ended up in Hard Times. In Hard Times, Amy started doing party drugs. Her crime is theft by taking. She tried to go…
A special place in the hierachy| Rose Richardson| Hard Time S3
She has a job in prison, she is a maintanance worker. Rose Richardson is in lockdown because of talking back to her work supervisor in Hard Times. She has been removed from her work. The…
A problematic inmate | Kimberly Taylor | Hard Time S3
Kimberly Taylor is not the easiest inmate from Hard Times. She has trouble with other women in jail, thats why she was in Lockdown for two weeks in Hard Times. She often gets into trouble…
Prison celebrity | Brandi Cook | Hard Time S3
She walks like one, talks like one, treats you like one. Overall Brandi Cook from Hard Time describes herself as a gentleman. Brandi Cook alias T is a three time veteran of Georgia´s prisons in…
Taking a different path | J.B. Davis | Hard Time S3
J.B. Davis’s lifestory presented in Hard Time, is shaped by a troubled youth. In Hard Time, he explains that he had a lot of anger in him as a young man. But then he left…
Conform or consequences | Hassan Hawkins | Hard Time S3
The new prison inmate in Hard Time, Hassan Hawkins, tries to adapt to his new life behind bars. Unwilling to follow the rules of another prison he was now removed to Smith State prison from…
The Prison Code | Antonio German| Hard Time S3
Antonio German is not the easiest prisoner in our series Hard Time. In Hard Time he is one of the instigators of an uprise of inmates. And even after that he is unapologetic. He also…
(No) Rules| Chaz White | Hard Time S2
Money and muscle form the power in prison. If you don’t have either, you have to get inventive. New young Hard Times inmate Chaz White arrives at a prison in Ohio. He has many years…
Family Trees | Dorie Terrell | Hard Time S2
Hard Time shows that managing female offenders is one of the toughest jobs in corrections. At the Ohio Reformatory for Women the system is tested daily by every kind of inmate. Female inmate Dorie Terell…
Old vs. New Generation | Oran Brumley | Hard Time S2
Over half of his life in prison – this is the story of 60-year-old inmate Oran Brumley who has seen the prison system change serving long and Hard Times locked away. He has come to…
Take what you need | Juice Reynolds | Hard Time S2
Hard Times living behind bars, especially with no access to money from relatives or better-paying prison jobs. Some inmates choose the illegal way of building a paid business, others just steal what they want. This…
Legal vs. Illegal Work | Ronald A. Dudas | Hard Time S2
Not all prisoners rely on a reputation of violence and spreading fear in order to get through Hard Times behind bars. Inmate Ronald A. Dudas is more of the quiet sort but doesn’t obey the…
Back in Prison | Rodney Ruggles | Hard Time S2
This is the return of Rodney Ruggles aka. Rebel in Hard Time. As a short timer he regularly serves shorter sentences in prison and therefore is not an unknown face at the Ohio prison. He…
