C4 Teens Behind Bars ... On Now

[smurfchops]

Why can't we run our prisons like this.

[Mamyalynne]

A question for Rory Stewart the Minister of Justice really.

[MallyJ]

Most odd to be showing lifein American prison to british teens...far more sensible to show life in prison here surely. All it is saying is don't get caught breaking the law in the US surely...

[jno]

the USA locks everyone up, far more than any other country in the world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2page1.stm

Prison doesn't seem to work, their murder rate is still among the top ten in the world, so why would we want to emulate that?

[Spicerack]

'Why don't they show life in British prisons'

If they showed life in our yoot prisons, they'd be queuing up to get on the programme.
I've always said, we should outsource prisons. If they can survive a few years in the Bangkok Hilton or the Black Hole of Karachi, they ain't going to be in a hurry to go back.

[derek-33]

could not see the point of this tv "show" US prisons are nothing like ours compared to theirs ours are holiday camps and "schools" for learning how to commit even more crime once there out