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Why I can't watch this show anymore...

posted 8 years ago by meredithmsw
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I loved watching the whole first season. I thought it was interesting to see how the innocent were able to blend into jail and I love the idea of them putting plants in there to try to better the jail.

However, after watching the sheriff and his people listen to the first set up rigged inmates, I thought for sure they would act on the problems in the jail.

Boy, was I wrong. They did NOTHING. Not ONE thing to make it less of a drug den, or to make it safer. If anything, it is MORE dangerous now than last season. Even if your jail can only have 2 CO's during the night, THEY ARE NEVER SEEN. You had the one guy nearly DIE of a seizure. You had another guy sexually harassed (one of the plants that you are supposed to monitor) and nearly raped, you have these stupid young girls doing drugs and screaming and carrying on all night, you have one CO catching them with NO consequences whatsoever because he didn't want to be bothered, you have a man who was nearly kicked to death due to some stupid kangaroo court. Then when Brian tapped out, you talked him into going back, and when he tapped out again, you were asking him if he wanted to go to C Pod, knowing that a racial riot was nearly about to occur and Brian would have gotten trampled.

You have to be doing this for ratings. You care more about ratings than people's well being. Besides I am sure there are innocent people in jail that have to really live this way and can't tap out, the rest of the people, regardless of their crimes, which in this jail are mostly petty crimes like drugs or theft, do not deserve to get killed or sexually assaulted by others in the jail. I believe in punishment for crimes but not abuse.

Why are there pod bosses? If someone tries to be one, they should be tossed into solitary. Why are the men allowed to keep other men from taking showers. Why do you allow 4 people to be in a small room where they can fight, come up with escape plans, do drugs, beat the heck out of people and be UNSEEN. It should be like other jails and everyone should be out in the open so that not just a select few get what the want.

This jail is a disgrace. I really just want to know WHY the sheriff and his people allowing their jail to be a circus and why did they not heed ANY of the advice given during the first season????!!!!!!!

[–] cmpresador 8 years ago

Lmao these people if you notice were planted in the jail as soon as the others were released. ever notice seeing inmates from 1sr season in this 1. its because this was filmed immediately after the other 1 ended thus they had no time to correct issues

[–] tdabb 8 years ago

yeah this is what I was thinking too. at the end of last season I remember the discussion between Zac and Ash when he found out that she was going into the program right after he got out.

[–] P-rock52 8 years ago

Your right the jail is a madhouse. And of course there's ratings involved on some level. They need their peaks and valleys. It wouldn't be interesting if all they did was read books and all get along. Your right though, it's beyond dangerous with all the sheet going on

[–] TorontoBlueJay 8 years ago

In the 9/29 episode, there is obvious tattooing, drug use and other behaviour caught by cameras. And, the prison does not know about it? LOL!

[–] paca0502 8 years ago

I posted something similar criticizing this joke of a poorly run jail a week or so ago. You made a lot of the same points.

At this point, I'm realizing the jail just wanted money and new cameras from doing the show, they don't care about the program. If they did, they wouldn't move the few inmates who actually get in close with people and try to find stuff out. They did it to Zac and now they did it to Ryan. WHY ARE THEY THERE IF YOU DON'T WANT THEM TO LEARN THE TRICKS?!

[–] Head_Cheese74 8 years ago

One of the fights was over a faulty E-Cig. They make "Drugs" out of worn out E-Cigs. The used E-Cig also works as a tattoo pen. Imagine that they still sell them as commissary..

[–] meredithmsw 8 years ago

Just when I thought it wouldn't get worse, I watched 20 min last night and was horrified at the STUPID people running this jail...no water? Poop all over the place? Someone nearly dying and given an asprin?? What the???

[–] AuntB688 8 years ago

Agree with your whole post. Some problems are more complicated than others, but the noise at night seems like an easy fix. "Be quiet or you're going to segregation."

Nobody ever thinks they're stupid... It's part of the stupidity. - The Wire

[–] Whooda_Thunkit 8 years ago

According to this, they are making changes because of the show:

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2016/05/21/tv-show-sparks-firings-clark-county-jail/84706276/

[–] DACHokie 8 years ago

I'm getting tired of the show for three reasons:

1. it promises drama that never comes to fruition. Nothing is ever as explosive as the teasers make it seem.

2. The "reality" aspect is killed by all the footage. How do we get all the angles and zoom video of supposed illegal activities within the jail without inmate repercussions? Why do we get to see the inside of the cells for everything ... except when.a fight happens. Many times It just seems like the inmates are hamming it up because they are being filmed. And, for the most part, the planted inmates seem to be using this as nothing more than an opportunity to promote themselves (Robert, Tammy, Zach, Ashleigh), which turns the series into a scripted reality drama with novice actors.

3. This show is killing my DVR schedule. I just want to record the weekly one hour show, but there are endless and useless sneak-peak and pre-episodes that trick my DVR into recording because these mini-episodes have the same title and they air repeatedly throughout the week.

[–] hedkickboy 8 years ago

I think others have pointed it out, but the 2 "insertions" were back to back, so there wasn't time to implement the findings from the first season before the start of the second season.

With that said, it seems like a lot of the problems in this jail were quite obvious and could have been addressed without needing to implant people. I mean, the sherrifs seemed to know things like lacing up your shoes means a fight is imminent, e-cigs are being used for drugs, pod bosses are running the individual pods and room assignments seem to be handled by inmates. These seem like very obvious things that could be addressed but weren't before the program.

Frankly, in watching, I was stunned by how little presence the guards seemed to have in the units. These pods are filled with criminals who clearly have exercised poor judgement that led them to be there, yet they are allowed to essentially roam the pod freely and do and act as they please, only being addressed if they cross an obvious line. It seemed like a system set up to have a level of chaos amongst people who don't do well with exactly that.