Although no release date has been revealed for the final season of “Orange Is the New Black,” Netflix has found one way to fill the gaping hole left by one of its flagship series: A reality show set inside a women’s prison.
Following in the footsteps of A&E’s “60 Days In” and MSNBC’s “Lockup,” “Jailbirds” takes viewers inside the lives and loves of the inmates at the Sacramento County Jail.
The series is produced by 44 Blue Productions, the documentary series production company behind the highly successful “Lockup” and its various franchise subsidiaries.
This is Netflix’s first foray into the prison reality show genre.Per the official synopsis: “Love, hate, betrayal — the drama never ends for both first-time and veteran inmates trying to survive behind bars.
At the Sacramento County Jail, incarcerated women fight the power and one another as they try to make the best
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