Hard Time: Tools of Control

Step inside Hays State Prison where a war is underway between inmates and officers. National Geographic follows inmates and prison officials as they struggle to set the rules inside these walls. Witness a surprise shakedown of inmates as special officers and a K-9 unit blanket the cell house, searching every room for contraband and weapons. Meet an inmate at the helm of a prison criminal enterprise, trafficking everything from hard drugs to cell phones through the prison.