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Why we watch TV programs about prison life? We are genuinely interested, because we want to see with our own eyes how criminals are punished? Or plays a role schadenfreude?
Prisons, or as we here in the Netherlands as a euphemism, prisons, are a source of entertainment for TV makers and other snoops. Prison life was previously unknown to anyone who never punishment perch had done, nowadays almost everyone knows how life happen there in U.S. Supermax prisons, where murderers, pedophiles and other serious criminal scum is housed. In the Netherlands, in particular television programs about such American high security prisons broadcast, but since television presenter Menno Buch to the Penitentiary (PI) in Almere has been a documentary, we know something more of the Dutch prison life.
In one of the episodes of the first season of Buch in Prison learned the TV viewer how young criminals to get a firearm. Criminals must find some illegal firearm borrow from a friend to commit a robbery, but if they fix the weapon a shot, they must pay hundreds of dollars. The weapon is because ‘contaminated’, making the weapon no longer useful in the illegal circuit. In other words, criminals will not just pull the trigger, because they in fact immediately lose their booty to the repayment of the weapon. Very fascinating.
For the second season of Buch in Prison Buch traveled to the PI Vught, where the Security prison is, a maximum security structure of Europe. Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo van Gogh, trapped there, as big names from the Dutch underworld. The RTL 4 program on Thursday evening was very successful with nearly 1.3 million viewers. Why the Dutchman so enjoy going television programs looks about prison life? It will be something to do with the need for information and background to the news, as we watch the news every night.
But there’s more. We want to see who is in the bars are and why. We want to see for themselves how the life of prisoners looks in a bare cell of a few square meters and we want to answer the question whether it is all just a little tighter and sober can (the answer is in the TV viewer always yes) . In the living room we speak of shame as a recalcitrant prisoner from his cell does and should be met by a SWAT team. We hate it lawbreakers – would they prefer to permanently remove from society – but in the meantime do we feast on the miserable life of that offenders who are in prison. The life of the criminals is through television very close, without us having to fear for our own lives. A clever solution to our need for schadenfreude. And as criminals rather not snoops want, but then they had to choose another profession. Yes, right?
For snoops who do not have enough to already existing TV programs about prison life: DJI, the Dutch prisons manages, organizes on 20 April for the ninth time the National Open Day. “Based on my own experience and talking with DJI employees, visitors to the National Open Day DJI a broad picture of life behind the gate.” The first episodes of Buch in Prison II are reflected through RTL.
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