Troubled Teens. Jail Shock. CBS Reality.

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Anyone watch or watched before?

Wayward teens being taken to a prison for a day to be moralised and intimidated by hypocrites of epic proportions. It angers me to see such utter hypocrisy. Pot meeting kettle of epic proportions. As Fletch in Porridge said he hates hypocrisy as they are all in jail for stepping out of line.

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If only it were that easy Corrie. Some of the thugs on the street just don't give a flying fig about what ANYONE thinks so a bunch of snarly convicts will not make a hap'peth of difference really.

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I watched one last night Corrie. A high security prison in Wyoming offers this program to louts - the authorities claim a 90% success rate because they are so terrified of ending up there they resolve to mend their ways.

One seemingly hopeless case running with Gangs met four lifers who will never see outside those walls ever again, all in for murder, some multiple and another for killing his three brothers and mother. They were all eloquent and calm rather than the raving nutters other shows have bawling at the yobs, the Hard Man was all full of bravado at first so they took him on a nice tour of what he had to look forward to if he carried on as he was doing. After being subjected to catcalls, intimidation nd all the rest of it, our little hard man started to cry and swore that he was NEVER going to end up there and was mending his ways.

A particular hero of mine is Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County Arizona. This man takes no crap from prisoners who he says are not there for a holiday, they have a hard time of it and the prison has a low re-offender rate. Many prisoners live in tents, they ALL wear bright pink uniforms, he introduced the Dog Rehab scheme which is wonderful, they work hard and theres no special tv for them. They get the Disney channel and a couple of other seemingly inane channels to choose from. Sheriff Joe also introduced a Vegan Diet for everyone regardless of race, creed or anything else. He himself is a vegan so the idea was that instead of using the budget to pay for expensive meat, they grow everything the prison uses and its saved a fortune and made the entire prison population a lot healthier in the process! Google him and take a look

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I've never watched this, but I love the advert for it that always appears during Judge Judy.

"I'LL TEACH YOU TO RESPECT YOUR MOTHER!"



Always makes me chuckle.