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Netflix's 'Unlocked: A Jail Experiment' Divides Community Where Sheriff Unlocked Cell Doors

Netflix's Unlocked: A Jail Experiment follows Sheriff Eric Higgins as he gives surprising new freedoms to inmates in the Pulaski County Regional Detention

The local NAACP has offered “unequivocal support” for Higgins’ position, Larry Hicks, chairman of the group’s legal redress committee, said in a news conference Friday. “We believe what the sheriff is doing is providing an outlet to address the real and serious needs that exist in our jail system, which is comprised mostly of young African men and women here in the city of Little Rock,” Hicks said. “I recognize I can’t sign a contract,” Higgins told local station KARK, adding that he considered the location release form a “memorandum of understanding.”

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