Scared Straight -- Tipton County Teens Get Message From Behind Bars
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › July 31, 2007
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The 15-year-old girl from Tipton County said she smiles when she gets mad or nervous, but that was precisely the wrong expression to wear inside the walls of the West Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Fourteen teenagers directed to an anger management class by Juvenile Court weren't supposed to find anything funny in their half- day visit to the prison last week.See the full content of this document
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Scared Straight -- Tipton County Teens Get Message From Behind Bars
Like youths first exposed in the 1970s to in-your-face lectures by prison inmates in New Jersey, they were supposed to be scared.
Correction officers, nine serious convicts, a prison chaplain and the penitentiary's warden attempted to drive home the point."Don't c...See the full content of this document
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