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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 401080" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p><em><strong>"I wanted fear. I was mortified by juvy...he thought it was a vacation. Sigh. I wanted Big Bad Bubba in his face, backing him into a wall telling him to bend over and pick up the soap!"</strong></em></p><p> </p><p>That's EXACTLY why they do those programs! They do them to show those kids who think juvy is a "vacation" that a real adult prison is nothing like juvy and that it's a place they do NOT want to end up in. It doesn't reach them all but it does get to some of them. I'll never forget one group of kids that came ... one of our veteran counselors was escorting them down to the compound and the inmates started yelling and whistling. One boy was snickering because he assumed that they were whistling at their female teacher who came with them. The counselor stopped him dead in his tracks and said, "You think they're whistling at her? They're whistling at <u>YOU</u>, boy!!!" The kid went white as a sheet, looked like he was going to cry, and practically glued himself to the staff the whole time he was there.</p><p> </p><p>I did watch the show last night, the one filmed at the womens prison. And as scary and as threatening as those women looked - that's why they picked them! I can guarantee you that none of them were "problem inmates" or they wouldn't be allowed to participate in the program. They were intense and threatening with the girls because they needed to be to get through to them. You have to remember that they were there because they were the ones who cared enough to try to set these kids straight and to keep them from following in their footsteps. The only thing that really surprised me was that the one girl was allowed to participate in the program in the same prison where her mother was incarcerated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 401080, member: 1883"] [I][B]"I wanted fear. I was mortified by juvy...he thought it was a vacation. Sigh. I wanted Big Bad Bubba in his face, backing him into a wall telling him to bend over and pick up the soap!"[/B][/I] That's EXACTLY why they do those programs! They do them to show those kids who think juvy is a "vacation" that a real adult prison is nothing like juvy and that it's a place they do NOT want to end up in. It doesn't reach them all but it does get to some of them. I'll never forget one group of kids that came ... one of our veteran counselors was escorting them down to the compound and the inmates started yelling and whistling. One boy was snickering because he assumed that they were whistling at their female teacher who came with them. The counselor stopped him dead in his tracks and said, "You think they're whistling at her? They're whistling at [U]YOU[/U], boy!!!" The kid went white as a sheet, looked like he was going to cry, and practically glued himself to the staff the whole time he was there. I did watch the show last night, the one filmed at the womens prison. And as scary and as threatening as those women looked - that's why they picked them! I can guarantee you that none of them were "problem inmates" or they wouldn't be allowed to participate in the program. They were intense and threatening with the girls because they needed to be to get through to them. You have to remember that they were there because they were the ones who cared enough to try to set these kids straight and to keep them from following in their footsteps. The only thing that really surprised me was that the one girl was allowed to participate in the program in the same prison where her mother was incarcerated. [/QUOTE]
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