Again I can’t vouch for how good these documentaries will be but here is the information nonetheless. On Tuesday, National Geographic will premiere a documentary series called Hard Time. A couple of weeks later two documentaries about women in prison (as prisoners and workers) will premiere too.

Prison Women: Females on Guard
Sunday, February 13 at 8PM ET/PT

More women than ever are working as guards in Miami’s roughest prisons, putting their lives in danger guarding south Florida’s most dangerous criminals. However, taking the job means walking into a world ruled by power, sex and violence. Our cameras step inside the 50-year-old Pretrial Detention Center, where female guards confront daily brawls and outbursts. We’ll meet a recent graduate from the training academy as she begins working at the facility, a veteran officer trying to curb sexual harassment by inmates against female officers and a young officer scrambling to secure her floor after an inmate was stabbed.

HARD TIME: Female Offenders
Tuesday, February 15 at 10PM ET/PT

Women are the fastest-growing prison population in America, and among the toughest to manage. At the Ohio Reformatory for Women (ORW) outside of Columbus, “pseudo-families” emerge instead of gangs. Inmate Dorie Terrell heads a family 30 members strong. She claims to offer guidance and food to her girls, but the prison sees her role as a potentially dangerous abuse of power. When Heather O’Brien arrived at ORW, she was almost nine months pregnant. See the many challenges she faces while raising her daughter in the prison nursery.