nah steve french, you don't mean to tell me that people like "dr" drew care more about tv ratings then they do about curing people?? i simply refuse to believe that, lmao... i do think that the people who do the interventions care very much about the people they are helping.. but of course, its tv, its all about ratings and there fore charing more money's for advertising during their hit series..
the new show relapse is coming on just now.. wonder how this is gonna be..
and for dark, yah, i've seen a couple of the new ocean county episodes.. i've seen the one where that young black kid got caught robbing a mmj delievery driver.. i had to laugh my ass off over that one.. he said that they got caught in the car smoking all this weed.. his mom came down to visit him, and she wanted him to move back to i think it was like canada or minnesota possibly, and dude was like... hell's to the no's, i'm not moving back up there, when i can stay here and go surfing everyday of my life, or be in the mountains in an hour or two and go snowboarding as well.. kid was really young.. he was at first all happy cuz he was in a nice housing area, saying where he didn't want to get transferred to, then the next scene he's telling us that he just got transferred there and just found out that his celly is in there for murder.. he was kinda freaked out over that, and wouldn't tell his mom and shit about it..
not sure if i've seen any of the other ones though..
i still don't like that sheriff joe dude ... he was all proud of the fact that the guard dogs food for a day costs more money then the food for inmates for a day.. i mean, he's on to something as i think its crazy that housing and feeding an inmate shouldn't cost $65k / year, ,but i think he has swung wayy too far to the right imho.. and like you said, it gets to be over 150 or so under the tents in summer.. and also, like you've pointed out, that a lot of the poeple haven't even been convicted of a crime yet..
and i don't really think that going to any jail / prison is any kind of holiday and people aren't really going back for the amendities there, but more so simply because they have been institutionalized and can't handle living in an unstructured environment..
i don't know about any of you, but i've been in the county jails a couple of times.. and its not somewhere that i really enjoy going to, and believe me, its very much a punishment just being in a normal county jail without having to suffer the 150 degree heat and what not... and don't even get me started on the two cent an hour that they "pay" inmates for working either in the jails or outside of them in the fields like they do in some prisons.. i love it when people say that slavery has been over for 100 years or so, yet this shit happens everyday to millions of american's..