Putting disorderly youth behind bars, depriving them of their potential to contribute, to compensate and to progress, should be an absolute last resort and done only in the interests of community safety. Yet a reality TV show on Channel 5 a few months back attempted to illustrate that a short spell in prison was exactly the medicine required.
The idea behind Banged Up was that a dozen or so known troublemakers, most with antisocial behaviour orders, records of petty crime and addiction problems, would spend a week in an old prison, living exactly as they would if they were real inmates. It was hoped that when shown how terrible such an existence is, they'd be deterred from getting into further trouble.
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