My maternal concerns aside, the show is eye-opening. I kind of feel like everyone is going to have to enter the Witness Protection Program after the premiere. But anyone who watches the show will know that she is Ali’s daughter. So what’s going to happen to these participants and their families after the show airs? Maryum, who is the daughter of Muhammad Ali, is the only participant who changes her name while in prison. (And as a parent, I can’t tell you how stressful I found it that all the participants show their children and their spouses on camera.) Much is made of how dangerous the inmates are. Barbra seems particularly naive and vulnerable.
Stay-at-home mom Barbra, who thinks it’s not fair that prisoners basically get the same benefits as her military husband, leaves her 4-year-old and 6-year-old sons. Zac, an ex-Marine who wants to become a DEA agent, leaves behind a newborn baby. In watching the two episodes that make up the back-to-back premiere, I simply couldn’t wrap my head around why anyone would voluntarily do this.
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Citing the fact that prisoners don’t want to be labeled snitches and some undercover cops refuse to turn on fellow officers, he needs “ordinary people who’ve never committed a crime to live in my facility for two months.” Only Noel and a handful of others know about the series the inmates and the guards are all kept in the dark. “It’s almost impossible to get an unbiased look at what’s working and what’s not,” he says. He believes that having these seven volunteers infiltrate the jail will give him the information he needs. Sheriff Jamey Noel, who is overseeing the program, wants to put an end to the corruption, drugs and violence that permeate the prison.
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