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Watched this last night, and really enjoyed it. I like Louis Theroux and thought it was very interesting that he played this one very very straight. It was just a completely fascinating documentary, and I thought because of the way he done it, he brought out the actual humanity of people who society never ever want to be reminded of. The most uncomfortable bit was probably the Christian (presumably) sex offender who refused to speak about what he had done. When you compare that to the people who had accepted their crimes, their time, and were willing to speak about the horrific things they had done, I know who I felt more sympathy for...

I did find it interesting that the focus ended up on mainly white inmates. I suspect that there wasn't a lot of co-operation from the black or latino inmates. The only black people spoken to were someone who had just started their sentence and seemed to have distanced himself from the gangs, and the gay guy (cannae mind his name). He spoke to no-one Latino in the programme. I wonder whether it would have been a different type of programme if there had been a focus on other people.

Well worth watching.