Hard Time

Go inside the underground prison economy at Ohio's Ross Correctional Institution where inmates try their hands at different money-making strategies.

Enter the Ross Correctional Institution where every inmate must choose to either prepare for a life on the outside or fall prey to the convict mentality.

A high-states game of cat and mouse plays out at the Ross Correctional Insititution in Ohio.

Go inside the Ohio Reformatory for Women, one of the prisons managing the fast-growing and tough-to-control population of women prisoners.

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 nearing the end of their imprisonment as they try to unlearn the prison mentality and re-enter society.

Go behind the scenes at the Lucasville, Ohio facility where prisoners who break the rules in other Ohio prisons are sent for lockdown.