02-12-2007, 12:29 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
In my (pretty rough) junior high school, we had a yearly program where convicts currently serving prison sentences would be brought it to talk to us.
The second year they only made the "at-risk" kids go again, but the 7th graders all had to go. The thing that seemed to make the biggest impression on the budding hoodlums was when this grizzled, muscular guy said, "It's not just that you get raped in prison, boys. It's that everyone has their needs, and after 20 years, I'm here to tell you that you do things like that willingly." They were all ready to turn over a new leaf, for at least a day or two...
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That reminds me of that program from when I was younger "Scared Straight." As I recall, most of the kids went back to their same old ways after a time.
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