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Louis Theroux caps a day of great television...
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My girlfriend just pointed out Louis has a funny earlobe...as a slight subtext to this documentary...
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Quite, in 2008. Two friends accused, one of which pleaded guilty.
Two women shot, one that blokes ex-girlfriend who was in a new relationship with another women.
magoo
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What a horrible horrible world to be involved in.
Jesus. That was most shocking. Those cells are hideous: 20 plus men fighting, shouting and/or openly masturbating. Feral. And no signs of anyone attempting to stop it let alone rehabilitate the inmates.
The Strangeways documentary a few days ago serves as an interesting comparison. Strangeways looks like a holiday camp. That mental bloke who pissed on the floor and shat himself would not last long in Miami.
The Strangeways documentary a few days ago serves as an interesting comparison. Strangeways looks like a holiday camp. That mental bloke who pissed on the floor and shat himself would not last long in Miami.
magoo
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The US government should watch that and be ashamed.
Billy the Fish
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f*** getting locked up over there
Cheeky Monkey
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Hardly anything new or ground-breaking - series like 'Inside America's Toughest Prisons' (and other similarly titled series) have been showing this kind of stuff for years.
Seagull Steve
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That is a tough life. being on remand here,is more like being in a hotel in comparison.
Maybe that's not the point with Louis Theroux? Yes he documents the violence and the deeply shocking nature of the life of those who have to live there, but he goes further than that. He quickly develops a relationship with the people he is interviewing - he fully engages them even at the risk of physical or metal violence to himself - and in doing so lets us see inside their heads a little. We even saw a tiny peep into the head of the guy who was the "habitual mastabator" who is supposedly one of the nastiest of a very nasty group and could see that even he had a nasty side. Also the trustee who was sweeping up - despite a string of nasty crimes, I warmed to his intelligence and his openness. And then later Louis gets him to confess that he too is extoring things from weaker prisoners. Men who should have wanted to stave his head in, just for being white, free and shoving a camera in their faces, were chatting to him like he was a long lost friend.
LT's programmes are not about the facts, they just set the context, it always about people. Superb TV. Gripping.
ok is anyone most scared by this geeky kid
He reminded me of the character in Sin City.
34064 Fighter Command
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I'd love to see Question Time broadcast from Miami County Jail instead of Wormwood Scrubs, some of the politicians on the panel would be really sh!tt!ng themselves appearing on that edition .............
I can just see Jack Straw right now getting down with his homies in da hood like...........
I can just see Jack Straw right now getting down with his homies in da hood like...........
bhaexpress
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It's the same situation throughout America, people don't realise that life is cheap there. The only people who care about an individual's rights are the lawyers who make money out of the legal system. This is a country where 35,000,000 people have no medical cover at all, get ill and you die end of.
America is a graet place to live if you have money but it's a third world country otherwise. Their prison system would be at home in any poverty stricken country.
America is a graet place to live if you have money but it's a third world country otherwise. Their prison system would be at home in any poverty stricken country.
And it will never change. Any idea that you might want to help people is considered to be socialism/communism out there.....and we all know about there fear of this. It's a very warped country at times.
Art Vs Science
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Very true indeed. The country is a lot more dod eat dog than here
Indeed they have and they are great programmes, but I think the whole purpose of them is to frighten people not to commit crime (well to a US audience especially) which at the end of the day is what every decent person in society wants.
US prisons seems to generate an atmosphere that has man at his most basic and primitive and an ultimate survival of the fittest. It very much seems to be that the American state authorities believe prison is a form of punishment and we believe more in a place of rehabilitation, not that I want to go in either but if I had to choose I would definitely want to be inside here, but I do wonder which system (is prison punishment or rehabilitation) actually leads to less crime in general.
magoo
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Not sure if it was my imagination but did anyone else notice that the inmates seemed more raucous and uncivilised when they had the bars between them and Louis and his crew? When he actually went in the cell to talk to them face to face they were more subdued and less rowdy.
gripper stebson
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- Jul 27, 2004
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I suggest 'grubbing', a mixture of the two!
34064 Fighter Command
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It was your imagination, one of them still said he would fight him for his shoes when he was out in the yard........
It's da code man, da code ........
It's da code man, da code ........