And another point. What felon is going to want to win the money, anyway? How many of them are going to want their victim to get a million bucks? So what will their motivation be towards winning?

So the contestents better be either so reformed that they want their victims to become millionares, or so hardened that they only want more noteriety. My guess is that it'll only be the second type that'll even bother to apply, in which case, it makes a mockery of the entire justice system and overrides the needs of the victim, who may or may not want the noteriety.