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Episode "Breaking Point"

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  • Inmate Hassan Hawkins has a reputation for violently attacking guards in the Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Hawkins made a deal with his jailers, if he can control his rage and follow the system’s rules, he will be given more privileges. This won’t shorten his sentence, but make his time easier to do.
  • David Crowe spent 18 years on Death Row for shooting and robbing the manager of a lumber store where he and his wife were employed. The coroner concluded the manager had been shot three times, beaten with a paint bucket and a crowbar, and been gruesomely mutilated over several hours. A Georgia jury found Crowe guilty of murder and imposed the death sentence. After fifteen years, his appeals exhausted, he was schedule to die by lethal injection at 7:00 pm on May 22, 2008.
  • Brandon Booth is a corrections officer at the High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. It’s a small prison of 192 beds but it’s designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.
  • Inmate Hassan Hawkins has a reputation for violently attacking guards in the Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Hawkins made a deal with his jailers, if he can control his rage and follow the system’s rules, he will be given more privileges. This won’t shorten his sentence, but make his time easier to do.
  • Hays State Prison, near Trion, Georgia, is a hard place. It’s a level-five disciplinary camp where problem inmates are sent when other prisons in Georgia can’t manage them. Here one in five is in for life and almost everyone has committed a violent crime.
  • High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia is a self-contain facility with barbed wire fencing and guard towers. It's a small prison of 192 beds but it's designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.
  • Hays State Prison, near Trion, Georgia, is a hard place. It’s a level-five disciplinary camp where problem inmates are sent when other prisons in Georgia can’t manage them. Here one in five is in for life and almost everyone has committed a violent crime.
  • Brandon Booth is a corrections officer at the High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. It’s a small prison of 192 beds but it’s designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 7

    Inmate Hassan Hawkins has a reputation for violently attacking guards in the Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Hawkins made a deal with his jailers, if he can control his rage and follow the system’s rules, he will be given more privileges. This won’t shorten his sentence, but make his time easier to do.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 3

    David Crowe spent 18 years on Death Row for shooting and robbing the manager of a lumber store where he and his wife were employed. The coroner concluded the manager had been shot three times, beaten with a paint bucket and a crowbar, and been gruesomely mutilated over several hours. A Georgia jury found Crowe guilty of murder and imposed the death sentence. After fifteen years, his appeals exhausted, he was schedule to die by lethal injection at 7:00 pm on May 22, 2008.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 4

    Brandon Booth is a corrections officer at the High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. It’s a small prison of 192 beds but it’s designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 6

    Inmate Hassan Hawkins has a reputation for violently attacking guards in the Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. Hawkins made a deal with his jailers, if he can control his rage and follow the system’s rules, he will be given more privileges. This won’t shorten his sentence, but make his time easier to do.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 1

    Hays State Prison, near Trion, Georgia, is a hard place. It’s a level-five disciplinary camp where problem inmates are sent when other prisons in Georgia can’t manage them. Here one in five is in for life and almost everyone has committed a violent crime.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 8

    High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia is a self-contain facility with barbed wire fencing and guard towers. It's a small prison of 192 beds but it's designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 2

    Hays State Prison, near Trion, Georgia, is a hard place. It’s a level-five disciplinary camp where problem inmates are sent when other prisons in Georgia can’t manage them. Here one in five is in for life and almost everyone has committed a violent crime.

  • Hard time Breaking Down 5

    Brandon Booth is a corrections officer at the High Max Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia. It’s a small prison of 192 beds but it’s designed to be the end of the line. The inmates are locked down 23 hours a day in isolation cells and one guard is responsible for just 16 prisoners on each unit.

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