![]() Inasmuch as many reality shows find inspiration and a kind of shorthand in movies, this one owes a debt to “Brubaker,” the 1980 film, loosely inspired by actual events, in which a warden played by Robert Redford went into his new penitentiary posing as an inmate to get the lay of the land. That A&E somehow managed to deliver that experience with “ 60 Days In” – an undeniably compelling if highly questionable concept – is a dubious achievement, from the ethical concerns to the thought process that inspired the Indiana officials who gave the go-ahead to this idea, which weds unscripted TV conventions to MSNBC’s prison documentaries. For reality TV’s survival subgenre, the inside of a jail is one of the last frontiers, the claustrophobic flip side of stranding people on a remote island or in the Alaskan wilderness.
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