Netflix releases the official trailer and confirms the global premiere date for Unlocked: A Jail Experiment season 2, which returns January 7 with a bold six-week experiment inside a Pinal County, Arizona jail where a newly elected sheriff unlocks an entire pod and gives inmates unprecedented control.
Netflix has released the official trailer and announced the premiere date for Unlocked: A Jail Experiment Season 2, debuting globally on January 7. The series returns with a gripping new chapter that once again places viewers inside a real jail environment where the rules are rewritten in the name of rehabilitation.
Season 2 is set in Pinal County, Arizona, where a newly elected sheriff begins a daring six-week experiment. The doors to an entire pod are unlocked, handing inmates an extraordinary level of control over their daily lives. After years defined by violence, strict lockdowns and a constant cycle of repeat offenders, the jail becomes the center of a high-risk test designed to change everything.
The premise focuses on whether breaking old patterns of aggression and isolation can lead to something new. As tensions, personalities and unexpected choices collide, the pod becomes more than a facility — it becomes a laboratory for a radical approach to reform.
The experiment tests one core question: can empowerment, responsibility and access create a safer environment, or will old behaviors return when the walls come down? For the people inside the pod and the leadership running the jail, the outcome could reshape their understanding of what rehabilitation might look like.
Unlocked: A Jail Experiment Season 2 premieres globally on Netflix January 7.
