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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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00:47:50

75. The Pros and Cons of The Most Insane Job

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2024/05/20

Jake became a CO because he saw the job posted on Indeed, the website designed to broker meetings between employeers and prospects. But what did he see? In this episode Jake and Jon break down "The Pros and Cons of Being a Correctional Officer" as Indeed describes it. Did they get it right or were they way off? A perfect segue is made into talking the case in Oklahoma where the warden's top boy has been running a drug smuggling operation. Does it shock the conscience or do you just

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00:59:32

73. Final Fuckup: Picante Blast

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2024/05/13

Two Correctional Officers transported an inmate to the hospital. While there, he decided to make a break for it. He overpowered one officer, dousing him in his own oleoresin capsicum. The other officer, seeing that the game was afoot and that the safety and security of the community was on the line for this soon to flee felon, drew her pistol and plugged him. Now he's sentenced to the prison of death, from which there is no parole. But was in the right decision? Jon and Jake try to make sense of

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01:01:25

71. Charlotte: Officers Down; Prison Gangs Target...

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2024/05/06

Jon discusses how scammers go after big retailers, recalling how he used to put his life on the line to protect the local Target store; as it turns out those same scammers are movers and shakers in the gangster disciples Alabama branch. Jon also responds to the two correctional officers lost in Charlotte, along with a police officer and a US Marshall. Somebody has to call correctional officers law enforcement, and heroes that protect the community. That's why this podcast exists. Jon and Jake

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01:01:59

69. Therefore The World Hates You

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2024/04/29

A Surprisingly Serious Sixty-Ninth Episode.The world takes its insane beliefs so seriously that there is no humor or irony in the New York Post's article: "the lawsuit is demanding... Department of Corrections... award compensatory damages to the inmate that removed 𝘩𝘦𝘳 [own] testicles." Jon wakes up ready to mock the world, but today's just not the day. In this episode you are going to hear a frank and mature discussion about the inhumanity, cruelty and intellectual

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01:02:50

67. Inmates and The Internet: What Could Go Wrong?

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2024/04/22

Back to Slow Implosion State Penitentiary (see Ep.40) for a new dust-up, this time the state figured that giving inmates tablets and the internet was not worth all the money they were making. These tech companies are cleaning up-- but are they hosing inmates and families? Who should bear the costs, and what should that be? At 52:45, Jake and Jon make reference to the harassed hick sheriff JW Pepper from the classic (bad) Bond film 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘋𝘪𝘦 in error; he certainly inspired

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00:00:40

66. Anarmosa: Failed Escape, Successful Murders

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2024/04/19

Correctional Officer Robert McFarland and Nurse Lorena Schulte were murdered in the line of duty during a failed escape attempt March 23, 2021. Now that the cases are adjudicated-- did we get justice? To hear this subscriber only episode, check the "About" section and click the link-- the proceeds will buy Jake's children a beer. A free episode drops Monday April 22. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/message

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00:53:31

65. Fighting Dirty: Jake Confesses To A Felony

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2024/04/15

Jake admits to heinous and appalling crimes; Jon's computer takes a dump halfway through. An inmate in Auburn New York intentionally spits blood into officers' mouths and nose, and vile more acts of biomayhem. An inmate in Stockton fought officers in the hospital, stabbing and slashing them. DOC spokespeople, who work at desks and golf right at 5, say officers are fine and in good condition. Every day COs are in extreme and disgusting danger, and have to walk away the bigger man. Jake

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00:00:40

64. Escape From Death Row: Mecklenberg

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2024/04/12

Subscribe to get this episode of HARD TIME.https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/subscribe Mecklenburg Correctional Center was a maximum security prison operated by the Virginia DOC-- in 1984, six murderers broke out of the block in cool Ocean's Eleven fashion and The Fugitive: End Game scenario took place all without Tommy Lee Jones. Hear how prisons evolved since then to the supermax Red Onion and to today's softer model and decide for yourself-- are you safer now than you

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00:56:19

63. No Exceptions: Michael Dewayne Smith Executed

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2024/04/08

Commonplace, if somewhat grim, unsocial event known as a necktie party. The guest of dishonor a gang member named Michael Dewayne Smith, just a moment away from the needle, a lying only a short distance from the dark eternity of all evil men. Mr. Michael Smith, who, when the good Lord passed out a conscience, a heart, a feeling for fellow men, must have been out for a blunt and missed out. Mr. Michael Smith, in the last, quiet moment of a violent life, asked for his final words said only, "nah,

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00:00:42

62. Unforgivable: COs Plead For Inmate's Life

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2024/04/05

In Missouri, a man who committed the most heinous crimes you can think of has spent the last 17 years charming officers into thinking he's a swell guy-- now the officers want the Governor to pardon him.Click this link to subscribe and hear Jon's spicy content: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/message

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00:58:41

61. Gettin' Stabbed: A Warden's Painful Tale

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2024/04/01

Georgia Dept of Corrections is so bad that 37 inmates got killed there. An officer got killed. An now, a warden has been stabbed. Nobody works there, and many that do aren't all they're cracked up to be. We've covered Prisons in the Peach State a few times, but permissive society and inept leadership continue to ruin working and living conditions down south. Up north, two COs jump out to rescue a Minnesota State Trooper-- it's a story that will warm your heart and roll your

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00:00:40

60. Inmate Dies Doing What He Loves

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2024/03/30

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/subscribeclick this link to subscribe to HARD TIME so you can catch the weekend episode about a man who swam through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side and got hit by a truck. It drops later today. If not we'll catch you for free on Monday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/message

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00:53:32

59. Go To The Bathroom and Break The Law

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2024/03/25

Government makes everything worse. In Virginia, an act of Congress is underway to try to convert a basement of a jail in order to let 4 kids sleep there overnight to cut down on thousands of hours of transports. These kids will be on the city commission before it's over. In Los Angeles County, Los Padrinos had a riot/escape over Christmas. Only 40 officers showed up to work that night, and of course they're bearing the blame for that debacle-- not the admin who can't get it staffed and

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00:01:23

58. Ambush in Ada County

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2024/03/22

Free episodes will continue to drop on Monday-- but if you want to continue getting new episodes twice a week (Monday and Friday) please consider being a paid subscriber using this link. An episode about the shootings of three correctional officers and the escape of an inmate in Boise will be our first subscriber-only case. Jake jokes a-waitin.... https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hardtime/message

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01:43:47

18. A Hard Time's Night: Riker's Island Strikes Again

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2024/03/22

It's After Dark. Madge crashes this episode before and after, about the unmitigated hellhole that is Riker's Island. We've criticized NYDOC before, this new one takes the cake. A correctional officer intervened and saved a man's life, only to wait almost a year to be hit with the news he was facing charges for his bravery. Their problem with him was that he wasn't in two places at once! This after a huge lawsuit was settled and someone had to be made to pay. Guess who? Shit

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00:54:14

14. Hell Hole: Riker's Island

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2024/03/22

Jake and Jon tackle the really effed up situation over at Rikers this one dude is beating the shit out of everyone on the staff. So this one captain says what the fuck are we doing guys to the upper staff and they're pretty much "silence, you insolent cur" about it, and sure enough he is suspended. If you ever had shitty leadership you will relate to this episode and if you ever had to work in a dangerous and terrible place like a jail you will really get it.

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01:27:09

2. The In-Custody Death of Irvo Otieno

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2024/03/22

Sgts Bates and Welder break down the in-custody death of Irvo Otieno, held in custody in Henrico County VA-- but while be transferred to a mental health facility, an incident occurred with combined correctional and hospital staff that ended in his death. With power-house attorney Ben Crump involved, you can bet that cops will be framed for blame. (May 2, 2023)

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00:40:53

1: The Most Prison Story Ever

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2024/03/22

A long long time ago, Episode 1 was made. Get to know Jon, a former correctional officer and sergeant at the state's big house, and Jake, a current sergeant at a jail in the southwest. They tell you how they came and stay and went (in Jon's case), and you get to hear Jon's "Most Prison Story Ever."

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00:52:13

57. Lotion and Electricity: All You Need To Escape...

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2024/03/18

A daring escape. A dangerous man. And how 19 minutes and a wanted poster made all the difference in returning him to prison or a life of fugitive Mexican style freedom. Porfirio Duarte-Herrera escaped Southern Desert Correctional Center-- he was in there for bombing the Luxor Hotel and killin' a guy. He busted out with Suave lotion and a transducer, which you can just find lying around inside Nevada prisons like potions in Pokémon Blue. He hid in a partition of space-time, climbed 3 fences

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01:05:46

56. We Can't Put A Bad Dog Down

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2024/03/17

Idaho tried and failed to execute inmate Thomas Creech last month, who has been on death row since 1981. Creech admitted to killing a bunch of people in the 1970s, but convicted of two for sure. Supreme Court decision in 1976 put a temporary stop on executions and so Creech got a new chance at life, which he threw away by killing another inmate inside the prison. Now, we can't get an IV going in him and he lives another day. Well, what do we do now? Deliver the justice he was promised in the

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