Hard Time
Prisoners, guards and wardens share insights in this uncompromising look into the reality of prison life in our nation's highest-level security prisons -- past the barbed-wire, into the cell blocks and into a world where each day is a fight for survival.
Episodes
S1 | E1
Alaska
At Alaska's Spring Creek Correctional Center, inmates are surrounded by one of the nation's most breathtaking national parks. But the tranquility of the location is in sharp contrast to the heinous crimes perpetrated by the prison's inmates.
S1 | E2
Indiana
For most offenders at Pendleton Correctional facility in Indiana, it is the beginning of a lifetime of incarceration. Fortunately, for society - the facility was designed exactly for those who end up here: the state's most violent criminals.