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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 617801" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>There is one lesser known show called "The Squad" that is pretty dead on. It was the limited edition show on A&E about the Internal Affairs people who work for the Tennessee Dept. of Correction. There were only about a dozen shows filmed and about half of them were done in the close security prison where I worked. Those people were there filming for at least two months and we learned to just go around them. Their depiction of what life in a REAL prison is like and what really goes on there was extremely accurate. They focused on showing how their investigations are conducted and it shows real inmates and the real prison staff doing what they do.</p><p></p><p>The only apparent liberties that I can see they took was in some of the scenes they showed as "fillers" between the action scenes. They would show a segment filmed inside our institution, then switch to outside shots of the old Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, the massive castle-like pre-Civil War structure that has been used in several movies, or they would show outside scenes from other institutions. But unless you were familiar with them, you would never know.</p><p></p><p>I love to watch them, especially the ones we saw being filmed. I know all of the employees they show - my former co-workers, and I also know many of the inmates that were involved in the show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 617801, member: 1883"] There is one lesser known show called "The Squad" that is pretty dead on. It was the limited edition show on A&E about the Internal Affairs people who work for the Tennessee Dept. of Correction. There were only about a dozen shows filmed and about half of them were done in the close security prison where I worked. Those people were there filming for at least two months and we learned to just go around them. Their depiction of what life in a REAL prison is like and what really goes on there was extremely accurate. They focused on showing how their investigations are conducted and it shows real inmates and the real prison staff doing what they do. The only apparent liberties that I can see they took was in some of the scenes they showed as "fillers" between the action scenes. They would show a segment filmed inside our institution, then switch to outside shots of the old Tennessee State Prison in Nashville, the massive castle-like pre-Civil War structure that has been used in several movies, or they would show outside scenes from other institutions. But unless you were familiar with them, you would never know. I love to watch them, especially the ones we saw being filmed. I know all of the employees they show - my former co-workers, and I also know many of the inmates that were involved in the show. [/QUOTE]
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