Netflix series’ agreement to film in Pulaski County jail included $1,000 daily to sheriff’s office, document says

Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins stands in a jail cell in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility during a media tour in this June 16, 2022 file photo. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford)
Pulaski County Sheriff Eric Higgins stands in a jail cell in the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility during a media tour in this June 16, 2022 file photo. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford)


A production company agreed to pay the Pulaski County sheriff's office $1,000 a day to film a Netflix series about an "experiment" with giving a group of inmates more freedom -- and that a trailer indicates will show inmates fighting, making prison wine and rolling joints -- according to a...

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