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Unlocked: A Jail Experiment is Netflix’s latest docuseries that features a radical (and potentially illegal) social experiment right in the middle of the gray halls of Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility in Little Rock, Arkansas. In short, Sheriff Eric Higgins, a man with more than 30 years of experience with the police department in Little Rock, decided that a single unit of inmates he oversees needed to be given the opportunity to prove that they could “act more like people than criminals.” Higgins’ motive behind the experiment was that he wanted to prove to everyone and have the inmates prove to themselves that while they are locked up for various crimes, they are still capable of being decent individuals with pride in their community.
