Tag: Hard Time
Hard Time S2 E5: Prison Gangs | Short Episode
In prison, gangs are a fact of life that forces every inmate to make a choice: join up and stand together – or stand your…
Hard Time S2 E6: Prison City | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time S2 E7: Back on the Streets | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time S3 E5: Cellphone War | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time S04 E02: Jail Mom
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…
Hard Time S04 E03: Running the Joint
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…
Hard Time S04 E05: Judgement Day
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…
Hard Time S04 E04: Love behind Bars
In prison, the inmates have to do without many things – including sex. Theoretically sexual intercourse is forbidden. Of course, there are still relationships between…
Hard Time S04 E06: Revolving Door
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…
Hard Time S04 E07: Gangs behind Bars
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…
Hard Time: Prisoner Protest S3 E6 | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time: The Convict Cycle S3 E7 | Short Episode
Three years after they first appeared on “Hard Timeâ€, National Geographic catches up with four inmates at different stages of doing time: settling into their…
Hard Time: The Outsiders S3 E8 | Short Episode
Two Georgia prisons – Jackson and Coastal – absorb a flood of new inmates, while four prisoners struggle to adapt to a new reality of…
Behind Bars: Hard Time | Extra Long Episode
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….