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The choices were prisons, prostitutes, or police. In 2000, a young cable news network, MSNBC, had time to fill on its weekend schedule, and it wanted something in “the 3P space,” as a long-time reality show producer told me. What Rasha Drachkovitch and 44 Blue Productions delivered was a show that went into prisons and …

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