Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7181055.stm, don't forget this is on tonight on BBC2 at 9pm. Lisa x

I'll be watching. It looks like it'll be really interesting.

While being interesting, I thought it almost glamorised prison life, with even the guard admitting that its better inside than out - seemed a little much!
The guy with 500odd years and 11 life sentences - that's just crazy!

liz1102 wrote:

While being interesting, I thought it almost glamorised prison life, with even the guard admitting that its better inside than out - seemed a little much!
The guy with 500odd years and 11 life sentences - that's just crazy!

There seemed to be a lot of happy people in there didn't there! The racial gangs thing was interesting. The white bloke segregated from thr groups for his own safety for not stabbing someone after they borrowed dominoes of a black guy!

I was quite surprised how jolly it all was and very out of keeping with most people's perception of the US jail system. I suspect there was a lot of careful selection of the prisoners to select only the ones that were happy, jolly, resigned and getting on with it.

For me the most surprising wasn't the guy with 521 +11 life sentecnes (who after all knew he did it and he deserved it) but the young black guy who swore blind he was innocent and STILL seemed fairly content to get on with doing his time.

They only touched v. lightly on the sex-offenders (the guy who's crime was 'to let a DEMON take over my life') and I thought that was something that was a bit too rich for the BBC's stomach.

I dont like this guy so I missed it. Doesnt sound like I missed much.