Hard Time S2 E4: Breaking the Rules
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 E2: The Hustle
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 S2 E3: Female Offenders
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 S2 E1: Against the Wall
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…
Hard Time S3 E7: The Convict Cycle
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 S3 E8: The Outsiders
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…
Hard Time S2 E6: Prison City
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 E5: Prison Gangs
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 S3 E5: Cellphone War
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 S2 E7: Back on the Streets
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 S2 E8: Worst of the Worst
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…
Hard Time S3 E1: Battle Behind Bars
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…
Hard Time S3 E6: Prisoner Protest
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: Against the Wall S2 E1 | Short Episode
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…
Hard Time S04 E01: Come on Vacation, leave on Probation
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…
Hard Time S04 E08: Mental Hell
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. —-…
Hard Time S04 E09: Misfits and Outcasts
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…
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: 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 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…