Intro

In America's overcrowded and violent jails, inmates spend up to 23 hours a day locked down due to understaffing and security concerns. One visionary sheriff decides to risk everything on a groundbreaking social experiment that challenges the very foundation of incarceration. Removing all locks and officers from a jail pod, he gives detainees complete autonomy to govern themselves as a community for six weeks, betting that when treated with dignity and trust, people will rise above their criminal pasts. For the inmates, this unprecedented freedom offers a transformative opportunity—a chance to reconnect with family, prove their capacity for responsibility, and demonstrate they can function as productive members of society. However, with a pod full of felons now running their own lives, tensions rise as some embrace the chance for redemption while others threaten to derail the entire experiment. As the sheriff and his team stand ready to intervene if things spiral out of control, the stakes couldn't be higher: will this radical trust in humanity succeed, or will it take just one person to destroy this fragile experiment in freedom and second chances?