Now on its fourth season, 60 Days In is a docuseries from A&E that has managed to catch the interest of a lot of people out there, as shown by the fact that it is broadcast in not just the United States but also in more than 100 other places. Like its name suggests, the docuseries sees a small number of participants going undercover as inmates in a jail, thus providing interested individuals with a much more up-close look at what is happening with the institution than otherwise possible.
Here are five things that you may or may not have known about 60 Days In:
Few People Know About the Undercover Program
Since the participants are supposed to uncover problems that could not be revealed through the normal means of monitoring, it should come as no surprise to learn that most people are unaware of their true nature. In fact, the information of the participants’ true nature is not just kept from the prisoners but also the prison guards as well as most of the prison officials, thus preventing it from affecting the normal routines of the institutions.
Legal Releases Obtained from the Prisoners
With that said, the people behind the docuseries do get legal releases from the prison inmates to appear on the docuseries. However, they prevented the prison inmates from finding out about the participants’ true nature by misleading them about the reason why the legal releases are needed. Supposedly, the legal releases remain valid in spite of this, which is rather interesting to say the least.
Corrections Officers Have Been Fired Because of the Series
It is interesting to note that 60 Days In is said to have provided the relevant parties with sufficient information to have caused some changes in how the institutions are being run. To be exact, producers for the docuseries have stated that more than one prison guard has been fired because of the evidence turned up by it, which is in addition to other changes effected by other pieces of information.
The Experience Tends to Be Eye-Opening for a Lot of People
Overall, the docuseries tend to be rather eye-opening for a lot of people. For obvious reasons, the participants tend to be the ones affected the most, with a lot of them having expressed surprise at things that are normal for prison inmates but wholly unfamiliar for those on the outside. However, it is interesting to note that even people who should be most familiar with the institutions have learned new things, as shown by the revelation of the surprising importance of tater tots in the makeshift economy of the institutions.
Filming for the Fourth Season Concluded Earlier than Planned
The fourth season of 60 Days In started up on January 1 of 2018. For the most part, it is much the same as the preceding seasons. However, it is interesting to note that this time, the filming for the docuseries had to be cut short earlier than planned because one of the participants leaked their true nature, with the result that the filming had to stop lest the participants be put at risk.
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