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Post by lonnie on Feb 28, 2019 3:15:05 GMT
This season is rather comical. Some of the participants are getting a little too much into playing the role of a prisoner. lol
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Post by holly on Feb 28, 2019 18:16:17 GMT
I watched the first season & two of the women did exactly what you said - got a little too involved in acting like a prisoner. So much to the point that the warden in charge of the program strongly chastised them at the end because they endangered the welfare of the other participants by their actions & actually engaged in illegal activity while "locked up". The men definitely did a better job of trying to understand prison culture while avoiding getting involved with trying to be cool. That said, I don't really know if this experiment really made any kind of difference, so I won't watch another season.
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Post by JosephD on Feb 28, 2019 23:31:41 GMT
I watched the first season & two of the women did exactly what you said - got a little too involved in acting like a prisoner. So much to the point that the warden in charge of the program strongly chastised them at the end because they endangered the welfare of the other participants by their actions & actually engaged in illegal activity while "locked up". The men definitely did a better job of trying to understand prison culture while avoiding getting involved with trying to be cool. That said, I don't really know if this experiment really made any kind of difference, so I won't watch another season. Oh, is this back on the air? New shows or reruns? I liked all the seasons I got to see. I'm going to have to check it out if they're showing new episodes.
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Post by holly on Feb 28, 2019 23:38:00 GMT
I watched the first season & two of the women did exactly what you said - got a little too involved in acting like a prisoner. So much to the point that the warden in charge of the program strongly chastised them at the end because they endangered the welfare of the other participants by their actions & actually engaged in illegal activity while "locked up". The men definitely did a better job of trying to understand prison culture while avoiding getting involved with trying to be cool. That said, I don't really know if this experiment really made any kind of difference, so I won't watch another season. Oh, is this back on the air? New shows or reruns? I liked all the seasons I got to see. I'm going to have to check it out if they're showing new episodes. I don't know. I didn't know they did another season until I saw this thread. I just assumed I had seen the one & only season (at that point).
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Post by momrek06 on Feb 28, 2019 23:56:02 GMT
Oh, is this back on the air? New shows or reruns? I liked all the seasons I got to see. I'm going to have to check it out if they're showing new episodes. I don't know. I didn't know they did another season until I saw this thread. I just assumed I had seen the one & only season (at that point). Oh no holly there have been at least 4 or 5 seasons. I watched or attempted to watch S1 (which was awhile go). I still cannot figure out WHY in the world someone would want to be LOCKED UP IN JAIL for 60 days just for the fun of it or for whatever reason. BIZARRE.
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Post by cornholio on Mar 1, 2019 0:13:01 GMT
I'm watching the current season.... it's really good. The sheriff in AZ (youngish guy who always wears a cowboy hat) who has also been on LIVE PD has it in his jail. This season, the men are more interesting than the women. In the men's pods, everyone is in a gang according to race - there are Chicanos, Woods (white people) and Kinfolk (black people). They all sit for meals with their own kind, sleep in a bunk room with their own kind and have to follow the rules. Each "gang" has a leader. Interestingly, the 60 Days In participants on the male side have 1 in each race/gang. And in each case, the 60 Days In participants have risen to the #2 in command for their race/gang! They are really fitting in well. Almost too well! The Chicano guy is a reformed Latin King (Puerto Rican). He's so far in that he actually beat someone up on camera!!!! OMG. This season, all the participants met each other first when they went through training. So no need to try & figure out who each other was. They were advised not to hang out or clique up, but the 3 women ignored the advice and immediately cliqued up. They don't have much going on at all... the CO's are suspicious of them and have asked them all for more details about their background, to back up their stories.... Still enjoying this show. And yeah, I think anyone going on this show is straight up NUTS. For spending 60 days like this, eating garbage food and having a crap bed, risking their personal safety, etc., but the worst thing is that jails are full of disease - it's really common to pick up a MRSA infection. Something like 90% of prisoners wind up with MRSA. No thanks!!! Link: epi.publichealth.nc.gov/cd/mrsa_ca/jails.html
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Post by JosephD on Mar 1, 2019 0:35:58 GMT
Thanks for the info everyone. I found the new season On Demand and I'm watching it now. Btw.... no amount of money could get me to volunteer for this program.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 1, 2019 3:01:23 GMT
I'm watching the current season.... it's really good. The sheriff in AZ (youngish guy who always wears a cowboy hat) who has also been on LIVE PD has it in his jail. This season, the men are more interesting than the women. In the men's pods, everyone is in a gang according to race - there are Chicanos, Woods (white people) and Kinfolk (black people). They all sit for meals with their own kind, sleep in a bunk room with their own kind and have to follow the rules. Each "gang" has a leader. Interestingly, the 60 Days In participants on the male side have 1 in each race/gang. And in each case, the 60 Days In participants have risen to the #2 in command for their race/gang! They are really fitting in well. Almost too well! The Chicano guy is a reformed Latin King (Puerto Rican). He's so far in that he actually beat someone up on camera!!!! OMG. This season, all the participants met each other first when they went through training. So no need to try & figure out who each other was. They were advised not to hang out or clique up, but the 3 women ignored the advice and immediately cliqued up. They don't have much going on at all... the CO's are suspicious of them and have asked them all for more details about their background, to back up their stories.... Still enjoying this show. And yeah, I think anyone going on this show is straight up NUTS. For spending 60 days like this, eating garbage food and having a crap bed, risking their personal safety, etc., but the worst thing is that jails are full of disease - it's really common to pick up a MRSA infection. Something like 90% of prisoners wind up with MRSA. No thanks!!! Link: epi.publichealth.nc.gov/cd/mrsa_ca/jails.htmlI would go on NAKED AND AFRAID before I would EVER do "60 DAYS IN"!!!
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Post by shyra on Mar 1, 2019 4:41:41 GMT
Next week is the finale, I think they said they had to close down production because the inmates were figuring out who these people were and so the producers finished the show early for the safety of the participants.
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Post by cornholio on Mar 1, 2019 20:10:26 GMT
LOL, Karen... it would be a really tough choice - Naked & Afraid or 60 Days in! And neither of them offer any type of cash prize so what's the incentive?! CRAY CRAY!
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Post by JosephD on Mar 2, 2019 22:26:38 GMT
I would go on NAKED AND AFRAID before I would EVER do "60 DAYS IN"!!! Too funny, momrek, but I get it. I would move in with someone on HOARDERS before I would do "60 DAYS IN." Btw.... I'm on episode 8 of season 5.
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Post by momrek06 on Mar 3, 2019 1:12:22 GMT
I would go on NAKED AND AFRAID before I would EVER do "60 DAYS IN"!!! Too funny, momrek, but I get it. I would move in with someone on HOARDERS before I would do "60 DAYS IN." JosephD
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Post by lonnie on Mar 3, 2019 5:50:54 GMT
I think this season was the best so far. I liked how they condensed the background footage of the cast. I don't need to watch more than a whole episode before anyone even enters the jail. I don't recall if any family members or friends of the cast even visited the jail this season for the secret visits, like they did in previous seasons? They also didn't have as many activists in the cast lately that think every prisoner is a good person, which was nice.
David got too cocky and messed it up for the male cast, which was a shame. I think the female section would be more interesting if there wasn't just one pod. lol @ the prisoner that didn't believe that Jasmyn had done drugs before cause she still had her teeth. There were some gross things going on in that pod including one prisoner taking a dump in the shower and others asking if they coud borrow underwear.
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Post by redsoxgirl on Mar 3, 2019 14:19:54 GMT
This show doesn't make a difference in that we never see any of the prison guards caught on tape not doing their jobs or outright putting people in harms way by not following procedure held accountable. In past seasons people incarcerated have been put into unnecessarily dangerous situations because guards ignored protocol or didn't care about rules being broken by both inmt4s or other guards. I remember inmates in the men's sections were stuck in a flooded pod entirely filled with sewage back up. They were there for over 24 hours. One inmate was extremely ill. but the guards ignored his pleas for medical attention. Last season a undercover inmate rang the emergency button in his pod, which indicates to the guards an inmates safety is at risk. But no guard came to his aid. They simply ignored the buzz for help. I too thought the show was over after last years debacle when one of the undercover woman told her prison girlfriend she and others were part of 60 days in. SMH. Also, Why was there so much open, in your face drug use in the women's pod? How can guards not be aware of it? The scariest scenes were from a few years ago. A defense attorney went undercover. But, for whatever reason, the head of the pod he was in, decided to target him. The whole pod began to turn on the undercover prisoner. There were constant threats of rape and worse. That was truly frightening to witness. The undercover prisoner bailed out, thank goodness. My favorite undercover inmate was Matt, who was a former Marine. He went into the experience with a hard nosed "everyone in prison deserves to be there and deserves everything they get." But, after being in there awhile and immersing himself into the culture his viewpoint changed in that life isn't that simple and the system, not only the prison system, but the entire social/economic system in America is broken and that brokenness needs mending. My second favorite undercover inmate was the young police officer, who also went into jail believing everyone he's ever arrested deserved it and everyone in jail is supposed to be there. He came out a changed man who said he jo longer would be so quick to slap on the cuffs. It was as if the experience opened his eyes to the same reality the Marine experienced. When two straight arrow, law and order types come away from the experience completely changed n their hardcore perceptions, I think that's when the show is most effective to this viewer. That nothing changes despite all this undercover 'work' feels exploitive and pointless.
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Post by JosephD on Mar 8, 2019 18:40:44 GMT
This season was over way too soon! I can't wait for next week's reunion. David, David, David!!!! Why!?!!? WHY!?!?!? I had such hopes for you. Going in, I thought David would have the best results, and he did great there for a while. His two mistakes were (1) telling B-Shaw that Abner was his homie and (2) confiding in the CO about his real identity. Abner was right to tap out after David blew up his game. Someone must have tipped Trish off about Brooke, Jazmyn and Vivian. There's no way that woman figured them out on her own. Brooke surprised me the most out of all the participants. She was so cold and conservative going in... I thought for sure she'd breakdown in tears the first night, then tap out. She was a rock. Her major mistake was slipping the kite to the guard so soon after Trish showed Brooke her shank. I give Mark credit for hanging in there until production pulled him out. He was so out of his element and yet, he wanted to go the distance. That Steve guy was a total tool. He thought he was John Wayne or Clint Eastwood walking through those doors. Dude thought he was going to "clean up Pinal County Jail." He got one little piece of information and thought he had everything all figured out.
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Post by lonnie on Mar 18, 2019 22:07:55 GMT
The reunion wouldn't have been that interesting if that clown guy steve wasn't there. They need to find a better way to separate the loser gang members in the jails if possible. Not to sound harsh, but why are so many of the guards morbidly obese? If they ever had to chase after someone or do something that required a lot of effort, I would worry about their health. So many of the guards also seem constantly angered. I get that they aren't supposed to be 'friends' with the inmates and the pay probably isn't the best, but some of them come off as bit ignorant. I remember in a previous season that one of the female guards acted racist towards one of the 60 days in participants. The other inmates told the participant that the guard was known for not liking whites, but I don't think anything was said to her by her bosses.
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Post by lonnie on Jul 25, 2019 23:48:37 GMT
New spin off of 60 days in starts Tuesday, involving drug cartels.
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Post by lonnie on Feb 27, 2020 17:45:49 GMT
This season has been pretty good so far. One of the participants dropped out before he even made it into the jail? lol
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Post by lonnie on Feb 27, 2020 17:48:28 GMT
They said they have more fights in the women's pod at that jail than all the other men's pods combined.
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Post by JosephD on Feb 27, 2020 21:34:59 GMT
I'm not sure why this show doesn't have more of a following here. It's popular elsewhere. I hope the blond cop female gets found out and I hope they pull her from the show. The born-again Christian female is my favorite from the women's pod. The last guy to enter the men's pod is my favorite of the guys, although I did like that guy who recently quit....(the one with the cop haircut who tried to shake the inmates hand). I don't blame him for quitting, though. I would have done the same.
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Post by lonnie on Nov 2, 2020 19:14:08 GMT
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Post by JosephD on Nov 2, 2020 23:17:29 GMT
I don’t often cry over the death of a well-known person, but this one got the better of me. Nate was by far the best participant they ever had on 60 Days In. He did what he was assigned to do -- gather intel on inside drug deals, homemade shanks and corrupt CO’s. He was perfect for this assignment, unlike some of the other volunteers whose behavior quickly made the prisoners suspicious. Nate knew how to blend in and gain everyone’s trust so he could get the information he was placed there for. He was humble, likeable, respectful and in many ways even helpful to some of the prisoners -- giving them hope for when they’re eventually released. As a former Marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, you would think he’s paid his dues. Yet, he volunteered to be locked up in a maximum-security prison for 120 days with no special privileges, sleeping on a cot, taking cold showers, eating crappy food and being treated just like the actual prisoners -- and with almost no contact from his family. It takes a special kind of person to be willing to make such a sacrifice when they feel driven by a purpose. I can’t imagine what could have happened in his life that made him feel as if it wasn’t worth living. This is so sad. RIP, Nate. Rest. In. Peace.
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