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Hard Time: A Look At The Law Inside The Walls

Jake Welder and Jonathan Bates

To get ALL the NEW episodes, become a paid subscriber with this link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/subscribe Thinking about a career in corrections? Thinking about committing a crime? Correctional Sergeants Jake Welder and Jonathan Bates talk about life and the law behind bars, the challenges facing America"s Forgotten Cop-- the correctional officer. The first responders on beats made up exclusively of our communities" most dangerous people. MERCH

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00:57:19

170: Well, Shit: Louisiana 10 Escape

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2025/05/23

Ten inmates escaped f rom the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office law enforcement center. They ripped out the toilet with some help from a maintenance guy afraid of taking a shank, and ran across the interstate to freedom. 5 have since been recaptured but everyone in the jail looks like a big jabroni and only big goddamned terrible embarrassing things like this drive any changes in corrections. Oh yeah, most of them were murderers. Hard time for COs these days.🔴 MERCH:

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01:10:28

169. Mega Jail: Is It America's Answer?

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2025/05/17

Nayib Bukele scares the left. He cleaned up the murder capital of the world-- El Salvador-- and he did it with a tough on crime approach that would that would shock our 8th Amendment. He's a Trump acolyte to boot. Does his record of success down south have something to teach us about restoring law and order here? Or do his detractors make a good point about power run amok? They say he imprisoned millions, he says he freed millions more from being victims of crime.

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01:01:29

168. Lobotomies for Criminals: Worse Than Death?

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2025/05/09

Today we look at Rickey Ray Rector, who killed people. Then, refusing to go to jail, he stove his own brain in with a .38. He survived of course. His lawyer said he was like a 4 year old. Bill Clinton, trying to look tough on crime in 1992, put him death as the governor of Arkansas. Erstwhile in interwar Switzerland, a boy born wrong was beyond control to the shame of his family. Institutionalized from age 8, by the time he was 21 he committed one of the most savage crimes against a child. The

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01:07:04

167. Death By Restraint Chair

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2025/05/03

In Montgomery County, Christian Black stole a car, crashed it, went to jail, banged his head against the wall, fought the officers, despite tasing a pepper spray, and managed to put himself in the restraint chair. Well he ended up dying, and now the cause of death is that ol' chestnut 'positional asphyxia' that we all know and love so well. But what happened and why is the chair even used-- and was it even used improperly? Will other facts come out to exonerate officers? Meanwhile 3

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01:43:34

166. Moral Cowards Can't Stand Sight of Death

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2025/04/28

Dying is ugly. Killing someone is even uglier. Nitrogen asphyxiation is being sold to us as the new, easy and painless way to put people to death. But are we finding that it isn't easy for the condemned, or not easy for us? Out of the woodwork come the critics, all tacitly concealing their over-arching anti-capital punishment agenda. The dilemma? We have no intellectually honest conversation about how humane nitrogen is when no one who is pro-capital punishment has been invited to the discussion

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01:06:36

164. No Moral Code: The Gentlemen Stranglers

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2025/04/21

Hijinks in Britain, Jake and Jon discuss.First thing you must realize is that the cocoa powder is not water soluable, it's fat soluable. Use whole milk if available or half and half, as a decadent philistine would. If the powder just clumps or won't get "wet" by the milk, you are not using an alkalized ("dutch-processed") powder. The clumping also tends to increase with finer powders-- if you can find a brand closer to granular that will make it easier although some like

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00:58:22

162. Cats: There's Something Unseemly

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2025/04/14

Blame Sillimander for this episode about the Pendleton Maximum Security Prison which has partnered with the Animal Protection League to start a new cat-based FORWARD program which imports cats into the prison behind the walls. Proponents point to relief for animal shelters and rehabilitation benefits for inmates. Seems like a perfect situation-- or does? Don't worry, Jon has a story from inside the walls that will ruin all your faith in the program. Jake Joke included.

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01:15:45

160: The Kid With The Penis Tattoo

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2025/04/07

A documentary made in 2017 paints a picture of a facility in Gainsville Texas as made of caring people who are making a difference in the lives of at risk kids. As it turns out the school has critics at all levels-- the State Senate, non-profit advocacy groups and the United States Department of Justice. If Gainesville is having to punt on every possession- who is really to blame? Jon and Jake take the critics to task for complaining rather than helping.

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01:10:51

158. The Little Longest Yard: A Great Idea

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2025/03/31

In Texas' Gainesville State School, a juvenile detention facility and not-traditional school has a great idea: high school athletics. Half school, half prison, a small group of people dedicated to reforming kids-- a superintendent, principal, coaches, correctional officers-- set up organized football in order to develop their focus and discipline, goals and ability. These kids are success cases in the making, recognizing that it was their own poor choices that got them here but recognizing that

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01:00:51

156. Terror To Evildoers: Polk County CO a Hero

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2025/03/24

In Polk County Florida, an off-duty Correctional Officer saw a suspicious male near children waiting for the bus. The stranger grabbed an 11-year-old girl, kidnapping her. Cops run towards danger when others merely dial 911: he ran after him, rescued the girl, and performed an arrest until police arrived. Now he's using his recognition to tell the County Commission and the community about the unknown heroes among them. In other news, Correctional Officers killed on 9/11 may better rest in peace

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01:10:52

154. Operation Night Drop

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2025/03/17

Jon returns for a solo episode-- that's right, it's full divorce and it's split custody and this is your weekend with dad. In this episode Jon talks about the 23 indicted in OPERATION NIGHT DROP, a federal investigation into drones flying in and out of Telfair and Smith State Prisons. Also in the news, Monkey Pox breaks out in Iowa, and Diet Satan Wade Wilson receives two death penalties for being a son of a bitch down in America's Wang.

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01:12:57

152. How Pakistan Puts 'Em Down

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2025/03/10

Jake and Jon take down an informative article about Pakistan that India-toucher in the Indus Valley region of the far east-middle east, or western far east, or whatever, and talk about how the Islamic Republic puts down their bad dogs. But in a country that executes blasphemers of the Islamic religion and homosexuals-- who are the bad guys in Pakistan, anyway? Jon and Jake relax and enjoy one more for the road.

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00:54:27

151. San Diego's Secret Sex Offenders

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2025/03/03

It calls itself "America's Finest City." Hidden away in San Diego is the brig at Naval Base Miramar and it has a dark secret: they ship in all the sex offenders from all over the military to serve time there, then they cut them loose into the community. Through a quirk of the law Jon can only describe as "typically federal," these sex offenders aren't having to notify anyone that they've infiltrated the community.

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01:02:03

Live 6

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2025/03/01

An impromptu live with Jake with news, updates and of course Jake Jokes.

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01:12:33

149. The Real Shawshank Escape

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2025/02/24

Richard Matt and David Sweat were discovered missing during a morning bed check at the maximum security Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York. The two had tunneled out, and exited through a steam pipe, and disappeared like farts in the wind. Instead of taking twenty years, it took merely ten-- and significant assistance from two staffers compromised by sex, money and complacency. A listener request.

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01:24:01

147. Ok, So Hear Me Out: Slavery

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2025/02/17

Tony The Tiger said it best. Now as it turns out every frosted flake carries with it all the sins perpetrated by this country since it was founded. The Associated Press did a two year exposé on the reality of prison labor and how it figures largely into the American economy. You're made to feel guilty and a party to amoral oppression with only half the facts being presented. Feel how you want to feel, but here is the rest of the story. Jake Joke: See Minus

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00:58:03

145. French Correction II: Fruit Control

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2025/02/10

Remember that French guy that couldn't stop breaking out of France's prisons? You loved it. Another experienced French guy gets away in a helicopter. But this time, he's gut art supplies, full creative liberties and some fruit. This one turns out a little differently though. France needs to start just wildly firing their guns at all helicopters.

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01:02:07

143. Secret Civil War: ¡Ecuador!

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2025/02/03

So many dead. So many taken hostage. Seven prisons in the equatorial country have turned into fortified bases for organized crime, which is battling the legitimate government for control of the country. The shit started at Guayaquil when one of the most powerful narcotics bosses, Jose Adolfo Macias, aka "Fito", escaped. Riots in response erupted at five more prisons, sending security forces into terror. The feeble government called in the military to retake the prisons, but Ecuador still

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00:48:55

Live 5

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2025/01/30

Jake jokes, some breaking news and a few tales of Aussie escapes.

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01:27:47

141. A Fucking Reminder: OFFICERS Get Killed

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2025/01/27

Curtis Allgier failed to escape. Tatted up head to toe this Aryan Bro was mister to both a wife and a mistress when he had a medical appointment. An MRI which would require all metal restraints to be removed. Just one correctional officer, Stephen Anderson, was tasked with keeping him in custody. A wiser administration would have sent two given the restraint situation, but it's not their life on the line. Allgier said he was gonna leave and go back out to the community which imprisoned him. But

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