This TV show was exceptional storytelling!  It's appalling to see some of the trash on TV today and know that quality acting, writing and production as delivered in For Life was so easily discarded. It told the stories of incarcerated people in compassionate and empathetic ways.  It humanized people who have made mistakes and the innocent victimized by the prison industrial complex which operates as big business through political capitalism. 

This show also told the story of committed family and friends of those incarcerated. Many people obviously feel that people who are incarcerated are just bad people and should be locked away from society and forgotten. Through the eyes and experience of their family and friends, this show eloquently makes the case and reminds us all that these people deserve to be treated and considered like any other human being. This point was starkly accentuated in season two where they shared the experience of inmates navigating the COVID-19 outbreak. Unbelievable depiction!

I'm sure the societal beliefs around the need for prisons and the money that is made in this industry had some influence on the production company's decision to end the show. The reality is that most likely prisons are not going anywhere so why hide the realities of this industry?  The societal belief that everyone in prison must be bad or guilty and therefore dehumanized is the most important reason to allow these stories to be told, so we, that are free, don't normalize inhumanity.