Overview
- Netflix releases Season 2 at Arizona’s Pinal County Correctional Facility, promoted with tougher regulations and heightened factional tensions.
- The series is presented as unscripted, following real inmates and capturing their interactions as they occurred.
- Officials clarify the jail was not unmanned, with continuous CCTV monitoring and secure access points in place.
- Participants received detailed briefings on behavior expectations before filming and were told taking part was optional.
- Sheriff Ross Teeple attributes conflicts to jail politics, chiefly racial tensions, and outlines a six-week trial of freer movement and inmate-made rules.