Many fans of the hit Fox scripted series, “Empire,” may remember the start of season two when Terrence Howard’s character Lucious Lyon was on lockdown.
However, it looks like Fox and its hit show have been hit with a class action lawsuit after taking over a juvenile detention center to film those episodes.
According to Deadline, last summer filming for those episodes took place at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center during three different shooting periods. Now two former residents, who go by T.S. and Q.B., are looking for the network to pay up.
According to the lawsuit during those shooting periods residents were kept in their cells, or in day rooms with nothing to do. They were allegedly kept from attending school, the library, chapel, family visits or entering the outdoor recreation yard.
They are seeking for themselves and up to 400 other residents to be paid the amount of money that was profited from the episodes that were shot within the detention center.
Page 37 of the lawsuit reads, “These actions were rooted in an abuse of power and authority and were undertaken with the intent to cause, or were in reckless disregard of the probability that their conduct would cause, severe emotional distress to the children housed at the JTDC.”
Fox has yet to comment on these allegations.
The new season of “Empire” premiers on September 21st on Fox
Source: http://deadline.com/2016/08/empire-fox-lawsuit-juvenile-detention-center-inmates-1201808497/
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