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[beefy]

Clever bloke Louis Theroux(never his real name?) is on tonight at 9pm BBC2.

So what i hear ya cry Well he's inside San Quentin thats what

It is sure to be an interesting docu no mistake.We all love seeing the other side and American jail shit is the bizo.

Be like Johnny Cash peeps And step inside the world of Texas peter's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7181055.stm

[Dub]

Originally Posted by beefy

Clever bloke Louis Theroux(never his real name?) is on tonight at 9pm BBC2.

So what i hear ya cry Well he's inside San Quentin thats what

It is sure to be an interesting docu no mistake.We all love seeing the other side and American jail shit is the bizo.

Be like Johnny Cash peeps And step inside the world of Texas peter's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7181055.stm

I'm off to check that out

[Colr]

Originally Posted by beefy

Clever bloke Louis Theroux(never his real name?) is on tonight at 9pm BBC2.

He can be good but he's copying Nick Broomfield to an extent.

[hibs1986]

Pretty sure it is his real name. Son of repected travel writer Paul Theroux.

[Northern Ireland Hibby]

Also, there's a UK writer called Jon Ronson who is a similar type of journalist.

[Colr]

Originally Posted by hibs1986

Pretty sure it is his real name. Son of repected travel writer Paul Theroux.

Is his brother not famous for something or other as well?

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by Colr

He can be good but he's copying Nick Broomfield to an extent.

Apart from the fact that Nick Broomfield has nae personality/charisma.

[Colr]

Originally Posted by Brainwrong

Apart from the fact that Nick Broomfield has nae personality/charisma.

Come on!! You not seen Eugene Terre Blanche programme? Both same vaux naive act.

[Bannox]

Good programme, must have been a nightmare to sort out the security to let him among the general population,
one of the ex gang members confirming what most of us knew anyway, that there are probably more drugs inside than there are on the street,

couldn't imagine him being allowed to chat so openly with uk prisoners.

[GforGallo]

enjoyed it, as usual with a louis theroux docu, any watch his wierd weekends series? some of them were ace

[stickyRicky]

Originally Posted by beefy

Clever bloke Louis Theroux(never his real name?) is on tonight at 9pm BBC2.

So what i hear ya cry Well he's inside San Quentin thats what

It is sure to be an interesting docu no mistake.We all love seeing the other side and American jail shit is the bizo.

Be like Johnny Cash peeps And step inside the world of Texas peter's

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7181055.stm

Devastated i missed it, Louis stuff is usually weird and wonderfull to watch.

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by Colr

Come on!! You not seen Eugene Terre Blanche programme? Both same vaux naive act.

I've seen the Louis one but not the Broomfield one. I quite like Louis' approach; sometimes it seems like he's on the wind up but I personally feel he's just trying to get people to be honest which a lot of folk can't do. This exposes them as the fuckwits they generally are when they get all defensive/agressive.

[greencol]

Watched a good bit of it. Thought some of the guys who said 'this place is easy 'were putting on a front. The black guy who was in for murder[50 to lifeIIRC] wasn't particularly scary.

The nut doing the 512 years +11 life sentences was a different character.
Quiet, lucid & very matter of fact.
I can see him ramming a shotgun up someones arse or pulling out fingernails & thinking nowt of it.

[wee 162]

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.

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by wee 162

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.

I was a bit dissapoint that they only focussed on the whites but then he did start off spraffing to the whites and possibly the other races took offence (?). He didn't have much discourse with the gay black guy, unfortunately.

I thought the bit where the young gay jew had hooked up with an ex white supremicist nazi gang member was quite funny. I thought about when the ex gang member got out, went home to his wife & kids (yes, he was married), knocked on the door and when his wife answered would say; "Hi honey, I'm out. No, I mean out"...

[beefy]

Originally Posted by Brainwrong

I was a bit dissapoint that they only focussed on the whites but then he did start off spraffing to the whites and possibly the other races took offence (?). He didn't have much discourse with the gay black guy, unfortunately.

My immediate thought was the blacks and the Hispanics probably didn't want to speak to a white film crew

Not through racism but just by not trusting whitey

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by beefy

My immediate thought was the blacks and the Hispanics probably didn't want to speak to a white film crew

Not through racism but just by not trusting whitey

I thought they probably took the hum because he went staright to the skinheids and that sue to that if he went to speak to them he'd just be paying them lip service.

Feckin' weird situation in there. I take it it's not like that in UK jails? Not that I'm specifically asking you!

[beefy]

Originally Posted by Brainwrong

I thought they probably took the hum because he went staright to the skinheids and that sue to that if he went to speak to them he'd just be paying them lip service.

Mibbes he went to the skins because he is Jewish

[wee 162]

Originally Posted by Brainwrong

I thought they probably took the hum because he went staright to the skinheids and that sue to that if he went to speak to them he'd just be paying them lip service.

Feckin' weird situation in there. I take it it's not like that in UK jails? Not that I'm specifically asking you!

Don't think it's like that in terms of seperation of races (certainly in Scotland) but there is a very regional culture in Scottish jails which has the same dynamic, if not the same level of violence, which goes Weegies and weegie overspill, the rest of the country, to the best of my knowledge.

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by beefy

Mibbes he went to the skins because he is Jewish

Aye, I see what you're saying.

[Brainwrong]

Originally Posted by wee 162

Don't think it's like that in terms of seperation of races (certainly in Scotland) but there is a very regional culture in Scottish jails which has the same dynamic, if not the same level of violence, which goes Weegies and weegie overspill, the rest of the country, to the best of my knowledge.

As opposed to how I might think it may have been in the past i.e. sectarian. Are Scottish prison populations over religion?...