I don’t think that I will ever run out of material about the lengths that corporations will go to profit off the prison industrial complex.  They are all looking to profit off this wretched and dehumanizing system.  Well today, I read that the Discovery Channel is planning  jailhouse talent shows modeled after American Idol and Dancing with the Stars.  This is apparently not a bad joke.

From the article reporting this travesty:

In what has to be the oddest and potentially inflammatory “American Idol” knock-off reality contest yet, Investigation Discovery just announced two prison talent shows.

At the Television Critics Association’s press tour in Beverly Hills, the Discovery-branded crime network announced it’s developing a singing competition titled “Talent Behind Bars,” and another show called “Dancing Behind Bars.”

The latter is produced by top-shelf reality kingpin Mark Burnett, the former has yet to attach a producing partner.