Tag: Hard Time Battle Behind Bars

Every day, every hour new inmates come to Clark County prison in Las Vegas. The officers have the task of assessing the newcomers and placing them in a way to ensure their safety. Most inmates…

Step inside Georgia’s Smith State Prison to witness a battle between the state’s toughest inmates and the paramilitary system that’s fighting to contain them. —- This is the official channel of the TV documentary “Hard…

A prison stay is not only a hard time for the inmates but also for their relatives. In Clark County prison, visiting time is limited to 30 minutes. How do the inmates, many of whom…

At one of Ohio’s toughest prisons, three young inmates try three very different strategies as they confront challenges from the system and from each other. —- This is the official channel of the TV documentary…

She’s a prehistoric rock in the Clark County Detention Center – Tess Collins, known in the prison wing as “Jail Mom.” She was arrested 22 times, mostly for drug trafficking. But today the 50-year-old is…

Since the space for the accommodation of the prisoners in the biggest prison of Las Vegas is slowly getting scarce, the prison management dares an experiment. Some of the inmates are no longer to be…

The Clark County District Court is located just a few feet from the Clark County Detention Center in L.A.. Prison and court are connected by a tunnel system through which the prisoners enter the courtroom…

In prison, the inmates have to do without many things – including sex. Theoretically sexual intercourse is forbidden. Of course, there are still relationships between the inmates, even prostitution. It is particularly difficult for those…

Around 80,000 offenders per year pass through the prison machinery of the Clark County Detention Center in Los Angeles. For many, being in jail is so dissuasive that they never commit a crime again after…

Las Vegas: In the Clark County Detention Center a bitter war rages between rival gangs. The guards hardly have a chance against it, as the men resort to more and more perfidious methods. For this…

Two years after a pair of convicts escaped from within its walls, Hays State Prison faces its next major challenge: an inmate sit-in. —- This is the official channel of the TV documentary “Hard Time”…

Three years after they first appeared on “Hard Time”, National Geographic catches up with four inmates at different stages of doing time: settling into their time, getting ready for release, and struggling to get by…