Girls Incarcerated: Young and Locked Up

I'm going to agree with many reviewers that it was very hard to wrap my head around the style of discipline at this facility. The girls have all had very difficult lives and therefore must be treated differently and as individuals. I am sure we are not allowed access to many individual and group canceling sessions, so it's hard to say the facility is doing a bad job, but the girls do seem to get away with a lot of disrespect to the facilitators. The rules seem very lacks and non uniformed depending on the guard and or counselor, but they all do seem concerned for the girls well being. It is very engrossing to watch and you find yourself wanting to reach into the TV and hug the girls and say "you can do this, life dealt you a bad hand, but you got this." I do hope that Netflix' finds a way to not make celebrities out of these girls like TLC has done with the 90 day franchise, as I fear it would compound unresolved issues that are better dealt with in counseling and not on social media. In that regard I'm torn between wanting the show to succeed or not.

These poor girls. I see other reviews going off about the girls language and disrespect. Well, what do you expect when you put 20(?) traumatized girls in the same room day in and day out with little-to-no privacy, guards who know very little about deescalating conflict, lack of addressing their very serious and gruesome trauma, an outdated silly form of "discipline" and point systems, to name a few? A fourteen year old girl with anger management issues and you expect her to behave like a normal kid? And you lock her up in this institution? I have no words for how sick this is. This is not only trauma and poverty social porn, but also yet another insight on everything wrong about the American prison system. An interesting watch if you look beyond the drama and foul language.

This series shows us that you can take control of your destiny and that it is never too late to become a good person. Moreover, this series is really interesting because it allows you to see the lives of teenage girls in a prison, which is rather original unlike other series where there are only adult men generally. This series is especially touching when they find their parents or when she leaves prison. I recommend it

Not as entertaining as jailbirds but with WAY MORE HEART. If every juvenile detention center was ran like this one, the world would be a better place. Seeing how the correction officers really want these girls to change, learn, and succeed in life is amazing. The stories are touching and need to be told. This is where the road to being a criminal begins for most, during the teenage years, and you see how these girls got on this path. It's sad but real and for me I felt compassion and sorry for most of the girls.

These girls have had "a hard life..." whatever. They are disrespectful & have filthy mouths. They are where they belong until they face the real world and/or "real" prison just to put them in their place & show them just how "bad-ass" they are. I pray these girls see the light and change their direction, despite the upbringing & "parenting" they've been exposed to their whole lives. So so sad. The warden is a saint to me. NO WAY I could put up with these attitudes & mouths. God bless him!!