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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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00:57:44

112. Escape: Inmate Dies Doing What He Loves

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2024/09/30

Up north another riot gets called a "disturbance," when admin takes their toys away. In Hawaii, an inmate held on a felony gathered up all his gumption and decided to hop a fence with razor wire because more than anything else he wanted to live his life as a free man. Things were going well until a bus arrived to change his plans. Now a lawsuit is probably coming surprise surprise. In Washington State you have more options than ever: Combos, Funyuns, Narcan, Diet Narcan. Washington says the opioid

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01:05:00

110. Ada County Ambush

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2024/09/23

Idaho Department of Corrections went into damage control mode after a maximum security inmate set up his own escape from a hospital transport, which left several COs injured by gunfire from both outside accomplices and Boise Police. What went right, what went wrong, and how this rampage got put to bed.

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00:55:08

108. Deprivation of Liberty: When Drones Attack

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2024/09/16

Spin. It's what creates lift in a rotor wing engine and allows a drone to fly. It's also what the administration of a prison puts on a story in order to make it seem like one of their prisons blowing up was not only safe, but their own idea. Sounds like it happened in Georgia, but no-- this is Ecuador bullshit. Down in the city of Cyndaquil, drones-- formerly the peaceful transport mode of choice for drugs and guns to merely be delivered into a prison-- are now being used to carry explosive

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01:15:33

106. Masshole Governor Indifferent to Danger At DOC

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2024/09/09

The Union and State legislators are calling on Massachusetts DOC to start taking action about a new synthetic cannabinoid that is being smuggled into prisons-- and putting officers in the hospital. DOC's response is "well we all have these challenges"-- how much longer can they ignore the problem? Why does it take a major incident-- an officer's death for anyone to care? Policy makers and power brokers are stalling to retirement or transfer, punting the problem to the next

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00:58:04

104. Counterfeit Correctional Officers' Crimewave

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2024/09/02

In Pierce County Washington, three people were held at gunpoint after three others in ballistic vests came to their house claiming they had a warrant to serve and were there from the Department of Corrections. This, all a temporary cover for an armed robbery. Guess how long they stayed in jail in Washington? Not long-- the crime wave continued.Luke, a former CO, tries his hand at podcasting and Jake goes nuts with the jokes.

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00:42:46

102. Carli's Audition (with Dog)

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2024/08/26

Nothing lasts forever. Jon's not going anywhere (yet) but the torch has to go to the next generation at some point. He's busier than a boiled owl. The busiest year of his life just plum got away from him, and he's got to get back to livin' at some point. Get busy living, or get busy dying as they say. Carli's a case manager and former dispatcher, and a girl, so she's got everything Jon's got going for him and moreso. She regularly appears on "Gear Goonz," a

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01:03:25

100. The Boldest: Recognizing The Silver Line's Best

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2024/08/19

In this episode Jon and Jake take time to tell brief stories of our best officers-- men and women who faced the most dangerous situations and acted effectively to preserve life and enforce the law at great risk to themselves. In California, a CO finds a building full of people under attack; in Delaware officers depend on each other to survive an ambush on a housing unit; around he country officers intervene in emergencies in the facility and in the community, and represent the finest tradition of

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00:54:35

99. Daddy's Never Home: The State of Things

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2024/08/16

In this episode, Jake is doing his best to be a father. Family comes first. Before podcasting, before work. He has his feet in two worlds of overwhelming worry and responsibility. Being a father of three, and being a sergeant in a community jail. As a professional he faces unchecked violence, false accusations which carry their own anxieties and baseless blemishes to his reputation. He faces the danger of fentanyl and even unknown drugs coming inside the walls. Sergeants and officers around the

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01:03:47

98. Laying Pipe: Sons of Anarchy Reaction

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2024/08/12

On Friday, the boys decided to react to portrayals of corrections in media-- television especially. In this experimental episode, Jon and Jake watch Sons of Anarchy, season 5 episode 3 "Laying Pipe." This acclaimed episode from 2012 features several of your favorite Sons going to jail for the shenanigans of past episodes while striking various deals for protection and power. Of course, everyone buys more than they bargained for and Jon is left counting the cost: an easy episode Hard Time,

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01:04:31

96. The Myth of Solitary Confinement

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2024/08/05

On the screen, solitary confinement is hard time. Locked in a dark cell or thrown in a pit, the inmate spends almost 24 hours a day alone, cut off from all human contact. That has not been a reality in prisons in this country for ages. Even so, lawyers and policy makers are hellbent on eliminating the practice. Jake and Jon talk about the reality and practicality of modern so-called "solitary," and why it cannot and should not be eliminated.Jake Joke: Still happening in episode 96

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01:21:07

94. Literally Everyone Hates Leavenworth

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2024/07/29

A judge said on the record that it's a fuckin' hell hole. The US Marshall said it was a clusterfuck. Officers says its a shitstorm. Attorneys allege in a federally-filed affidavit, "holy shit." Inmates say that it's worse than Transformer Age of Extinction, and they don't even get to go to the movies. As the Executive Branch gets ready to pull funding From The Sunflower State's Most Substantial Slammer, Jon and Jake talk what's gone wrong at USP

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00:52:17

92. Inside Out: Not The Pixar Film

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2024/07/22

𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘵 is the true story of Harry Camisa, who spent 50 years inside New Jersey's maximum-security Trenton State Prison, first as an officer and then as a teacher. Harry Camisa witnessed 13 electrocutions, was taken hostage twice, stopped the escape of five violent felons and knew all of New Jersey's notorious criminals from 1950 through 2002, prohibition-era gangsters the modern age (if you want to call Jon's junior year of high school modern). Camisa is most likely dead by

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01:33:45

90. Young Guns II: Officer Reagan Returns

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2024/07/15

In a follow-up from episode 32, rookie correctional officer Reagan returns to the podcast to talk about life inside the walls. She discusses how inmates have tested her limits, tried to gain her confidence and compromise her, and her once falling under the eyes of a supervisor's suspicion. How being an officer She talks about attending an elite 12-week academy, the challenges and rewards and what it means for her future career.Jake Joke: A+

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01:01:42

88. Presumed Dead: Prisoners Hijack Yacht

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2024/07/08

Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandel are 'presumed dead,' but their bodies haven't been found. The retired American couple were aboard their dockside yacht in Grenada after three prison escapees from a Caribbean island when the vessel was seized in a getaway attempt. It was later found abandoned with no one aboard 70 miles off the coast of St. Vincent. The three men responsible have been apprehended but we still don't know the sad fate of the sailors, or how the men were able to leave

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01:12:40

86. Shit Rolls Uphill: Sheriff Arrests Warden

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2024/07/01

Randall Hepp, the warden of a Waupun, a maximum-security Wisconsin prison, and staffers were charged following investigations into the ⁠deaths of four inmates over the past year⁠, including one that wasn't discovered until at least 12 hours after the inmate died.Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt led the investigation into the death and took made a press conference to the media in which grand-standed about the great failures of State officials. Is this strange politicking or local government at

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01:10:40

84. Running Guns: Murder-Suicide Inside The Walls

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2024/06/24

When a firearm goes inside the walls, someone's getting taken hostage or murdered. What's a true phenomenon is that an inmate in possession of a firearm would kill a staff member before turning it on himself, with a suicide note left behind. All the power of a gun and the inmate only chose to settle the beef he had with his bae and with himself. But how did the gun get inside the now infamous Smith State Prison in Georgia, where two staffers have already died this year? Jake Joke: Yes,

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01:20:45

82. Shit's Rollin' Downhill in Clayton County

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2024/06/17

Some wanted asshole tried to get into a secure area at the airport. Arrested, he goes to jail. He cannot post bond because he has a warrant from Fulton County on a probation violation. Held for extradition, he fails to disclose his own health and mental health problems to the jail's nurse upon admission. After less than a day, he tries to fling himself off a tier. First to respond are his fellow inmates, calling for officers to help. They grab onto him and throw down mattresses to cushion

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00:58:11

80. Diners, Drive-Ins and Detention Centers

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2024/06/10

What do inmates eat? Well recently, it was an Fulton County Detention Officers' ear. Pretty horrible. This is in the same place where an inmate was eaten by bed bugs. They have got to change the menu in Fulton County. Some inmate went straight Mike Tyson on an officer recently, but she's doing okay. Down in Phoenix, an ex-con decided in 2020 the innovate and bring prison "cuisine" outside the walls on a food truck. But will Ramen and pickles draw a crowd?Light fare for a

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00:07:14

BONUS CONTENT: How Andrew Baxter Became A Cop

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2024/06/05

Haven't you ever wanted to know? More bonus content goes out to subscribers, in case you wondered. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/message

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01:37:35

78: The French Correction: A Real-Life Fictional...

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2024/06/03

Jake forces Jon to read a 100-page article that is almost 30% in the French language. So yeah, he's gonna mispronounce things. Things he shouldn't. But this is the pressure of performance, and normally Jon has no problem performing. But France is one country too far. Also, Algiers. He knows what a Renault is, even if doesn't show. This is the story of Rédoine Faïd, debonair gentleman criminal, consummate Frenchman, who has made cinematic style the basis of his criminal career rather

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