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‘Unlocked: A Jail Experiment’: Arkansas County Refuses $60,000 Check From Producers of Netflix Doc Amid Ongoing Legal Battle
The Netflix docuseries 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' has caused a legal dispute between officials of Arkansas' Pulaski County.
This is not the first legal dispute to emerge surrounding the project, which was took place at the Pulaski County Detention Center (located in Little Rock, Ark.) Variety has reviewed a location agreement appearing to authorize Lucky 8 to film in the Pulaski County Detention Center; however, the document was signed by Higgins, not by Hyde. Led by Higgins, the project aims to “determine if more autonomy and less control in jails can lead to a more community-oriented living environment and better support one of the fundamental purposes of incarceration: discouraging people from committing future crimes,” per Netflix’s companion site Tudum.
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