- 8.0/1014 votes
#1 - The Hustle
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/1/2011
Go inside the underground prison economy at Ohio's Ross Correctional Institution and see inmates try their hands at different money-making strategies. A "jailhouse thief" brings his street ways within jailhouse walls, brutally robbing inmates and selling their possessions. A drug dealer on a 27-year sentence for attempted murder struggles to stay "clean" after getting caught up selling contraband at the orientation prison.
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- 7.4/109 votes
#2 - Prison City
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 2/1/2011
Ross Correctional Institution is a gated city. Every inmate must make a choice: Use his sentence to prepare for a life on the outside, or fall prey to the convict mentality which on the inside is called getting institutionalized.
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- 7.4/108 votes
#3 - Breaking Rules
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/2011
A high-stakes game of cat and mouse plays out at Ross Correctional Institution in Ohio. On one side, you have the inmates: men who've spent a lifetime breaking the rules and outwitting the system. On the other is a team of officers who monitor every corner of the prison and work to catch the offenders red-handed. There are rule breakers: a drug hustler trying to run his game behind bars, an old-school inmate, a jailhouse lawyer subverting the system and a lone wolf with one too many strikes.
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- 6.8/106 votes
#4 - Female Offenders
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 2/15/2011
Forget what you thought you knew about women behind bars: theyre the fastest growing prison population in America, and one of the toughest to manage. At the Ohio Reformatory for Women, the system is tested daily by every kind of female offender: from capital murderers, to nursery mothers - and everything in between. Behind these bars, there are "pseudo-families" instead of gangs, infants being raised by inmates, and a complicated web of contraband trades and power plays. This is a world of women unlike any youve ever seen.
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- 7.1/109 votes
#5 - Against the Wall
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2011
Enter the locked-down world of Ohio's intake prison. For the newly convicted, the Correctional Reception Center (CRC) in Orient, Ohio, is their last view of the free world. More than 14,000 inmates are sized up each year at CRC and moved on to serve out their sentences. From robbers to murders and rapists, CRC sees it all. And while most follow the rules and do their time peacefully, some inmates come in with their own agenda, ready to make trouble.
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- 7.1/1011 votes
#6 - Prison Gangs
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2011
In prison, every day is a fight for survival. An inmate's most important weapon may not be a shank or a razor, but instead a gang membership. With more than 1,400 classified gangs in the Ohio prison system, inmates are joining up in alarming numbers.
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- 7.6/1010 votes
#7 - Back on the Streets
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 3/8/2011
Almost all of the inmates in Ohio's Ross Correctional Institution for drugs, robbery or murder will be released back into the community someday. But withdrawing from the temptations of gang life, gambling and dark hustles is a steep challenge. After years behind bars, prison can seem more like home than the outside world. The last few months of an inmate's sentence are a time for him to unlearn the prison mentality.
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- 7.6/1011 votes
#8 - Worst of the Worst
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/2011
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The Best Episodes of Hard Time Season 2
Every episode of Hard Time Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hard Time Season 2!
Hard Time is an American reality-documentary television series on the National Geographic Channel. The series debuted on February 1, 2011 and is hosted by Thurston...
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Hustle" is the best rated episode of "Hard Time" season 2. It scored 8/10 based on 14 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/1/2011. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Prison City".