Tag: Hard Time Documentary

Three inmates at Smith State Prison, each facing a life sentence, search for purpose and protection through race, religion, and gang affiliations. —- This is the official channel of the TV documentary “Hard Time” Enjoy…

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”…

Episode 2 follows new inmates as they enter the locked down world of Ohio’s intake prison, where new inmates are sized up and broken in to the rules of the system. —- This is the…

The prison “Clark County Detention Center” in Las Vegas accommodates the serious sinners of the “Sin City”. Drugs, theft, prostitution, murder – Las Vegas is not only a city of pleasure, but also of crime….

In Clark County prison, many inmates suffer from mental illness. Today’s episode follows schizophrenic inmate Lance, who has a weakness for weapons, suicidal Borderliner Roy, and drug-addicted manic-depressive Jamie. —- This is the official channel…

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…

Three female inmates – a first-timer, a career criminal, and a murderer with a life sentence – navigate the challenges and pitfalls of Georgia’s toughest women’s prison. —- This is the official channel of the…

Break the law in Ohio and you go to prison. Break the rules on the inside, and you’re going to the Big House – Lucasville – the jail within the prison system. —- This is…

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 Lee Arrendale State Prison, Georgia’s largest female facility, inmates settle in to do their time… or make prison part of their life. —- This is the official channel of the TV documentary “Hard Time”…

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…

Managing female offenders is one of the toughest jobs in corrections, and at the Ohio Reformatory for Women the system is tested daily by every kind of inmate – from nursery mothers, to capital murderers….

There’s a high stakes game of cat and mouse going down at Ross Correctional Institution – as officers lay down the law, and inmates devise schemes to break it. —- This is the official channel…

In prison, gangs are a fact of life that forces every inmate to make a choice: join up and stand together – or stand your ground as a lone wolf. —- This is the official…

Ross Correctional Institution is a gated city. Every inmate must make a choice: Use his sentence to prepare for a life on the outside, or fall prey to the convict mentality — which on the…

This episode follows four inmates as they navigate the temptations of prison life and prepare to face their biggest challenge yet: making it on the street. —- This is the official channel of the TV…

In Georgia prison system, special investigators and corrections officers are waging a war against a flood of contraband cellphones – an inmate’s key to power inside and a constant connection to the outside world. —-…

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…