Tag: Hard Time Against the Wall

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…

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…

Episode 1 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…

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,…

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. —- This…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. —-…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…