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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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01:18:36

191a. Ghislane Maxwell's Move To Federal Hilton Hotel

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2025/10/20

She helped Jeffrey Epstein traffic women and boys to a secret island to cater to the prurient desires of the world's rich, powerful and elite. Now she's going to Camp Bryan, a minimum security detention center. The news says it's compensation for not naming the President as an Epstein Client. Idiots will read this and believe in the quid-pro-quo arrangement. But does it bear 5 seconds of critical thinking? Jon can at least do 4 so the rest is up to you. And what about minimum security--

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01:18:36

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2025/10/20

She helped Jeffrey Epstein traffic women and boys to a secret island to cater to the prurient desires of the world's rich, powerful and elite. Now she's going to Camp Bryan, a minimum security detention center. The news says it's compensation for not naming the President as an Epstein Client. Idiots will read this and believe in the quid-pro-quo arrangement. But does it bear 5 seconds of critical thinking? Jon can at least do 4 so the rest is up to you. And what about minimum security-- is it

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00:55:54

190. Africa's Poo-Powered Prison: A Woman's Idea

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2025/10/12

The United Nations is recognizing Olukemi Ibikunle for all her hard work to make prisons in Nigeria/Congo/Etc a nice place again. Women get beans there now. Heated by human fecal matter or something. The whole thing is a strange thing to even talk about and yet here we are, both Jon and Jake.

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00:48:04

189. The French Laundry Connection

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2025/10/03

The French prison system is le' fucked. They have dangerous prisoners going out with the wash, the "fly" getting away on transport and inmates throats getting cut. To solve their many issues, they built Lyon-Corbas-a new shiny facility to house France's worst organized criminals, but four walls do not a prison make. Find out why with Jake on this episode of Hard Time.

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00:53:29

188. It wasn't me it was my doppelganger

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2025/09/26

It's summer 1999 and event's that may have inspired Shaggy's "it wasn't me" have been set in motion. A man is arrested for a crime he says he did not commit; he has an alibi but is convicted of a purse snatching. He spends 17 years in jail before he meets his doppelganger-the purse snatching son of a bitch that sent him to his fate. Can he be exonerated? Will the man who did the evil deed face justice? What is this week's Jake Joke? Find out on Hard Time.

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01:02:57

187: Should We Execute Tyler Robinson?

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2025/09/19

The State is pursuing the death penalty for Charlie Kirk's murderer. Is it the right thing to do? The answer may seem obvious but the truth so rarely is. This episode is an absolute sermon on what it means to approach the death penalty legally, spiritually and practically-- but you won't get a lecture. More important is having the debate, which is what Charlie Kirk would want us to do. Let me know what you think in the comments.

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00:46:12

184. Decision Making: How To Be A Correctional Officer

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2025/08/30

Every day as an officer you will face a thousand battles. Will you say yes? Do you have the courage to say no? Can you back it up? And are you smart enough to talk yourself out of a situation? Former CO Jon and current SGT Jake will talk review an every day problem in a jail, and what went right and what went wrong.

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00:58:23

183. Brian Kohberger Complaining In Prison

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2025/08/23

The killer of four students in Moscow Idaho took a plea to avoid the death penalty. Now he is finding out what the life penalty means: spending time inside J-Block, where the worst offenders in Idaho are held. What can he expect out of his daily routine? People say he is cracking under the pressure, but are the claims of danger and abuse inside the prison realistic? Two corrections officers give you insight into the probable life of Brian

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01:07:20

182. Visiting Diet Satan Wade Wilson

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2025/08/16

He was an asshole who killed two women for the sake of killing. His own father turned him in, knowing the death penalty was on the table. Now these trashy ugg boot oatmilk true crime women-- the 'wade wilson wives' are crying out. Some for leaked phone calls, others for wade having a bad time in prison. wilson himself has earned a rap sheet of 163 pages just since he's been inside-- he's giving hell to FDOC employees and fuck this guy.

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00:58:32

181. Alligator Alcatraz: The Prison Liberals Don't...

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2025/08/09

Trump is doing a thing, so how could it be good? The BBC teams up with Floridian Native Americans and The Swamp Defense League to say that putting some tents on a tarmac is the same as building an Auschwitz that also dumps pink slime into a public pool. They decry overcrowding, they decry efforts to reduce overcrowding, they decry. Well It's trump time crybabies, and we're gonna let him cook. All that and more on THE UNDISCOVERED PODCAST.

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01:10:40

I Stand Correct | Jon's Solo Show

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2025/08/05

Check out the I STAND CORRECT PODCAST for more Jon.

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00:55:25

180: Georgia (The Bad Russian One) Prisons

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2025/08/02

Bleeding heart human rights groups uncover the brutality of the prisons in the failed Soviet cast-off state. But how bad is it really? BBC, the same new organization that decries conditions in the US describes them as having unbelievably low violence. The lesson? Everybody's got an agenda and nobody understands prisons. Except us. 🔴 MERCH https://thecommcenter-2.creator-spring.com/

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02:26:01

179. Donna Adelson Requests Bond: Cuz Jail is Hard

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2025/07/25

She hired the Latin Kings to kill her ex-son in law. She was arrested at the airport about to fly to Vietnam-- where there is no extradition. That's the main thing you need to know about her. She comes from privilege, wealth and entitlement, and she got overinvolved in her daughter's custody battle. She has no remorse or sympathy for Dan Markel-- only for herself. Lawyers and a judge will hear about how bad jail is-- but are Donna Markel's complaints legitimate or even novel? Two REAL correctional

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01:12:10

178. Before Alligator Alcatraz, There Was Alcatraz...

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2025/07/18

A new detention center in the heart of the everglades evokes the imagery of the most famous prison in US History. Erstwhile, the law and order president talks about re-opening the island prison in San Francisco bay made famous by movies and it's inmates. Should we dispose of its legacy in favor of safety? But would it only be a symbol? And wouldn't something more practical be better? Competing interests, political maneuvering, history, they all come together in this riveting episode. Also a

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01:12:35

177. Adam Sheaf Crucifies Innocent Man, Seeks Media...

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2025/07/12

He was on a mission from God, he says. Well so were those 9/11 guys. Sheaf felt like crucifying 76-year-old Pastor Bill, who was a real threat to the manifestation of the Kingdom of God on the planet earth. In reality he's just an asshole-- not crazy, not a true believer. Just some guy who's sole superlative is that he's evil. He wants to be put down, and if he's making the question about his fate so easy, why not let it be? Send him off to his reward-- ours will be having him

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01:00:31

175. Hanging It Up Down Under

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2025/06/27

Dubbo is a place in Australia, that kookie kontinent down south. It's been 120 long years since they last let out the rope for a dastardly dude down there. To mark that milestone, we will recount some of the stories of the last wild weirdos force to bite down on the bitter end for their crimes. A lighthearted episode about executions is what we have here.

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01:02:12

174. Devil In The Ozarks; Cool Guy In Washington

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2025/06/20

Today we review a couple massive changes of fortune-- a former federal inmate who racked up felonies like they were going out of style was pardoned by Trump years ago. Now he's the top dog at the US Bureau of Prisons. Meanwhile, a small town cop who liked to abuse power, as well as killing and raping, escaped from prison in Arkansas, as profiled in a new documentary.

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01:13:43

173. Will Trump Stop The Plot To Kill R. Kelly?

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2025/06/13

This asshole thinks he's important enough not only for the prison to kill, but to conspire with the Aryan Brotherhood to carry out the hit. He's been watching too much Mayor of Kingstown. Now his lawyers appeal to the top dog-- Donny J. Wallbuilder himself-- to save the day. That and all the other news that's fit to print from inside the walls. https://my-store-108c6f6.creator-spring.com/https://thecommcenter-2.creator-spring.com/

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01:11:59

172. Slang: Prison's 'Secret' Language

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2025/06/06

Yo, in dis episode we go rap 'bout how folks in the joint talk real differnt, all tied to that prison vibe know what I'm sayin', and how that slang's evolved over time, shaping they whole culture. Jon, this educated white dude, gon hustle to stay on top of what’s being said while Jake holdin' back them laughs 'bout how whack he sounds.🔴 MERCH: https://my-store-108c6f6.creator-spring.com/

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00:56:41

171. Cheering Up Jon

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2025/05/30

The Louisiana Ten was just another case of corrupt officials setting up COs to look bad, and the professional takes another beating. In this episode, Jake attempts to cheer Jon up. Attempts being the operative word. Here are some low profile stories of COs that really turns into sort of a mixed bag.

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