Think the hard labor of farming can change the criminal mind?  

Might want to check out the National Geographic Channel at 8 p.m. tonight for the sequel to an award-winning documentary made a decade ago called The Farm.

It’s about the lives of six "lifer" inmates serving their time in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, a notorious prison known as "The Farm." It’s a real farm covering 18,000 acres of a former slave plantation.

You can see the original film here. According to a release from the filmmakers, the warden has used the hard labor of farming, as well as some religion, to rehab his hard-core charges – more than half of the inmates are murderers and 95 percent of them will live the rest of their lives in prison.

Filmmakers say The Farm is now a "vibrant, almost self-sustaining agricultural community raising millions of pounds of vegetables, hundreds of workhorses, and thousands of cattle -- even though the grass-fed beef they raise is considered too much of a luxury for the prisoners, and is sold in the marketplace."

Photo of inmates being lead by a guard on horseback in "The Farm," courtesy of National Geographic