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Originally Posted by baloney_detector  It's just a shame, in my opinion, that some kids/young adults see "futures" for themselves in gangs.
I remember a program around here were troubled kids/young adults would be taken to a maximum security prison to spend some time communicating with "lifers" when they were caught committing a minor crime just so they could see what their potential "future" could become.
And the lifers would tell them what prison life is really like.
And it would scare the hell out of at least some of the kids/young adults and make them think twice about their potential future.
Do they have a program like that by you? | Yep, they do have that program. Even put my kids in it. BUT, that's become so PC as well, that it's pretty darn useless. I remember when my kids went, the officer (female) doing the tour? Told them that all those stories about the 'bad things happening in jail/prison' were rumors. That it never happened on her shift and wasn't near as bad as the press made it sound?
Wanted to slap her silly personally. And the inmates she choose to introduce to the kids weren't any help either as they were inmates she choose that were the nicest?
Alot depends on which officers do the tours basically. And there's more of the PC type that's trying to off set the bad press then the hard nosed officers who realize a scare needs to be put into the kids that are at risk of becoming offenders themselves. |