Tag: Hard Time
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. —-…
Hard Time S3 E2: World Without Men
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…
Hard Time S3 E3: Women on Lockdown
Three female inmates – a first-timer, a career criminal, and a murderer with a life sentence – navigate the challenges and pitfalls of Georgia’s toughest…
