Syfy developing futuristic prison drama '51st State' — hypable.com

Home TV Syfy developing futuristic prison drama ’51st State’ Move over, Prison Break: Syfy is working on a new futuristic series set in a prison society, titled 51st State. It sounds like a darker Orange is the New Black (so, like, closer to vermillion): Syfy’s newest sci-fi venture is 51st State, an intriguing drama about inmates in a prison society. Somewhere in the distant future, the U.S. finds a new way to deal with the ever-growing prison population: by purchasing Greenland (the country!) and sending its inmates off to live in co-ed colonies. They are promised freedom, but when that promise is broken, the inmates begin to rebel.

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