Hard Time S04 E10: Stress Box
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…
Hard Time: World Without Men S3 E2 | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time: The Hustle S2 E2 | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time: The Hustle S2 E3 | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time: Breaking the Rules S2 E4 | Short Episode
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. —-…
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 ground as a lone wolf.…
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 fall prey to the convict…
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 street. —- This is 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 inside and a constant connection…
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 times, mostly for drug trafficking.…
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 experiment. Some of the inmates…
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 a tunnel system through which…
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 the inmates, even prostitution. It…
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 so dissuasive that they never…
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 men resort to more and…
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 is the official channel of…
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 time, getting ready for release,…
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 life behind bars. #hardtime #shortepisode…
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. Whether drug dealer or murderer,…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.2 | Extra Long Episode
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…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.3 | Extra Long Episode
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…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.4 | Extra Long Episode
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…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.5 | Extra Long Episode
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…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.6 | Extra Long Episode
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…
Behind Bars: Hard Time Pt.7 | Extra Long Episode
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…