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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 485473" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I thought tonights show was interesting on Miami Dade jail. 6th largest jail in the country. They have to treat so many of the mentally ill people because that is really where long term mental illness gets housed. Some of the guards said that today the housing units are far better than they were back in the early 80s right after the deregulation of asylums. Now they go in and clean up the cells twice a day. They give them medicine. In the womens side, they are teaching them how to do cosmetology. if they pass the certificate will not say they earned it from the jail. That is good. This place also has a boot camp that takes non violent offenders from 17 through 28. It is not easy and it is 6 months long. I believe 4 months of it was physical and 2 months was emotional and mental where they learned how to present themselves as non-thugs and have actual goals and feel better about themselves. To understand that there was more to life than standing on a corner all day selling drugs or joining gangs. This unit also sent out mentors every two weeks to check up on these men to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to be doing. This boot camp had an 88% success rate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 485473, member: 1514"] I thought tonights show was interesting on Miami Dade jail. 6th largest jail in the country. They have to treat so many of the mentally ill people because that is really where long term mental illness gets housed. Some of the guards said that today the housing units are far better than they were back in the early 80s right after the deregulation of asylums. Now they go in and clean up the cells twice a day. They give them medicine. In the womens side, they are teaching them how to do cosmetology. if they pass the certificate will not say they earned it from the jail. That is good. This place also has a boot camp that takes non violent offenders from 17 through 28. It is not easy and it is 6 months long. I believe 4 months of it was physical and 2 months was emotional and mental where they learned how to present themselves as non-thugs and have actual goals and feel better about themselves. To understand that there was more to life than standing on a corner all day selling drugs or joining gangs. This unit also sent out mentors every two weeks to check up on these men to make sure they were doing what they were supposed to be doing. This boot camp had an 88% success rate. [/QUOTE]
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