Our prisons are leisure centres compare to this

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This was on tv other night,interesting into the usa prison system,our prisons arent as bad as this,7000 inmates,average 24 man per cell

Presenters own account http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/columnists/jim-shelley/2011/05/30/miami-vice-gives-louis-theroux-a-real-jailhouse-shock-115875-23167508/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Briz0CnLA

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Class documentary.

FatherLen

I suppose if I had to chose a prison it would be a nice one without sodomy and a window.

mikemac

3 years waiting for trial? :eek:

Isn't there some constitutional right to a speedy trail. My TV viewing of courtroom dramas makes me think that was mentioned once

Messed up system

bonerm

FatherLen wrote: »

I suppose if I had to chose a prison it would be a nice one without sodomy and a window.

Good luck. Do you know how far in advance you have to book to get a room like that! Club points don't even count either.

Cherry_Cola

mikemac wrote: »

3 years waiting for trial? :eek:

Isn't there some constitutional right to a speedy trail. My TV viewing of courtroom dramas makes me think that was mentioned once

Messed up system

I think most of the prisoners in this though want to wait as long as possible before going to trial. They call it "distancing" whereby the longer you wait it out then there's a greater chance that witnesses memory will become hazy or that they will die in the meantime which can help your case.

Mardy Bum

Louis Theroux is a legend. Im always amazed he never ends up with serious injuries after some of the characters he encounters and acts innocent around.

RichieC

It's great it is!

Free slave labour too, economy's don't grow without them.


Land of the free!*


*Your idea of freedom may vary from USACORP, its subsidiaries and shareholders.

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With almost 2% of the adult population of the US in jail or prison, it's a wonder that conditions aren't ten times worse.

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Jaxton Late Hammock wrote: »

This was on tv other night,interesting into the usa prison system,our prisons arent as bad as this,7000 inmates,average 24 man per cell

Theroux pointed out several times that ''inmates'' can spend many months in prison before facing trial. That's a whopping great flaw in a ''justice system''.

I can only hope we never become a society that treats it's citizens in the same way. Absolute sham of a system operated by overpaid uncaring oligarchy intent on undermining the value of human life. Disgusting.

Sykk

1: Don't go to prison in the first place
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3: Profit

mikemac

Felt sorry for the lad branded a snitch

In county jail for just driving with a suspended driving license and 12 inmates put him in hospital. Mistaken identity maybe

I'd say the suicide rate in jail would be huge

Herb Powell

It's because in the Land of the Free, you can be put in jail for almost anything. They have a ridiculous amount of people in jail

Marguerite Tonery

I wonder how people are to reform? There does not seem to be anything within that prison that would promote hope or a belief that things can change. The guy with the classes who had just been moved to the new wing and who was pre-trial looked so depressed that you would think he needed to be on suicide watch.

OutlawPete

Our leisure centres are prisons compared to this.

Jesus Wept

Our prisons are a disgrace.

mikemac

Yes, but it'll be a brave politician who steps up and demands we spent tens of millions extra of tax payers money on them to improve standards.

And not many votes in that but a lot of votes to lose

Micky Dolenz

Thats a good Doc, spent the last hour watching it when I should have been working.

any links to the boot camp one?

mikemac

The bootcamp one starts here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQLVA6FeVbE

You'll get the next three segments from the sidebar

I enjoyed the first one, will watch this one now

tonydude

Thanks for that OP, very interesting. Ill keep an eye for the second part

strokemyclover

I like the places Louis goes but I think his style of interviewing people is a little condescending - he does it in a funny way though but I always come out of his shows feeling sorry for the people he interviews having met him. They probably don't realise this subtle attitude in his questioning at the time or are too involved in whatever he's interviewing them about to realise it..... even if they're lucky enough to view the programme before it's release.

I wouldn't have minded this if he got the Michael Jackson gig Bashir took away from him though. I reckon he would have done a much better job!