Tag: Hard Time Documentary

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…

Two Georgia prisons – Jackson and Coastal – absorb a flood of new inmates, while four prisoners struggle to adapt to a new reality of life behind bars. #hardtime #shortepisode #criminalsandcrimefighters —- This is the…

At Ohio’s Correctional Reception Center, the rules are tough. This is the first stop for inmates coming into the sixth largest prison system in America. Whether drug dealer or murderer, everyone is subject to the…

Enter the locked-down world of Ohio’s intake prison. With inmates joining gangs in alarming numbers, the Ross Correctional Insititution fights to stem the unending flow of gang activity. Follow inmates nearing the end of their…

Tensions build in Georgia’s Smith State Prison when a cell floods and angry prisoners must evacuate. Witness how women at Lee Arrendale State Prison cope with life in jail and the sometimes strange changes in…

Officers are waging a war against a flood of contraband cellphones at Georgia’s Smith State Prison, where access to a mobile device means power on the inside and a connection to the outside. At Hays…

Get picked up on the Vegas strip and you´ll end up in Clark County Detention Center – the jail where many of the inmates arrive drunk or high. Vegas Jail is purgatory. It’s where inmates…

Life, lust, and love continue on even after arrest. At the Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) in Las Vegas, inmates all have one thing in common: They are waiting for their day in court. The…

Las Vegas is a crossroads for the major gangs of California and the Southwest. And at the Clark County Detention Center, inmates and officers are constantly under pressure from gang activity. The number of addicts…