Lockup: The Unexpected Essay

By kevin 

“MSNBC’s Lockup documentary series, about life behind bars, is exploitative and debasing, and as poignant a show as can be found on TV,” writes the Atlantic‘s James Parker in his March issue dissection of “Lockup” that takes you from Jeremy Bentham to Luis Buñuel to the Kentucky State Penitentiary. Add Atlantic contributing editors to the list of people you didn’t know watched MSNBC prison documentaries regularly.

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