Explanations from the participants contain varying degrees of logic for going along with this scheme. One suspects Noel might have designs on becoming America’s sheriff – the next incarnation of Arizona’s TV-friendly Joe Arpaio.
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Not only does the series draw heavily from more than 300 surveillance cameras strategically positioned throughout the facility, but producers have posed as documentary filmmakers producing a series about first-time inmates, enabling them to both conduct direct-to-camera interviews and secure release forms.
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To be fair, considerable ingenuity went into the thorny matter of how to capture all of this on film without polluting the prison vibe. And even if the sheriff knows a lot about criminal justice, he’s obviously a novice about how reality-TV devices – including wildly urgent music, editing and repetition – conjure a sense of jeopardy that seriously calls his judgment, not to mention that of a few of his moles, into question. Yet while several of the participants have a personal motivation to essentially become undercover informants, it’s hard to imagine anyone thought this was a good notion in terms of potential liability.
As presented, the show – which tosses seven non-felons, four men and three women, into the Clark County Jail – is the brainchild of Sheriff Jamey Noel, who wanted to have eyes and ears within the prison to look for signs of corruption and see how conditions might be improved. Inasmuch as many reality shows find inspiration and a kind of shorthand in movies, this one owes a debt to “Brubaker,” the 1980 film, loosely inspired by actual events, in which a warden played by Robert Redford went into his new penitentiary posing as an inmate to get the lay of the land.
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That A&E somehow managed to deliver that experience with “ 60 Days In” – an undeniably compelling if highly questionable concept – is a dubious achievement, from the ethical concerns to the thought process that inspired the Indiana officials who gave the go-ahead to this idea, which weds unscripted TV conventions to MSNBC’s prison documentaries. For reality TV’s survival subgenre, the inside of a jail is one of the last frontiers, the claustrophobic flip side of stranding people on a remote island or in the Alaskan wilderness.
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