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.

This review is less about the show and more about the psychological effect of putting a camera in someone's face while they are incarcerated. The show itself is very interesting, but shouldn't we consider how it might ruin any chance of a normal future? We have seen the negative effects of "celebrity" on so many people who are not incarcerated. Surely some of the prisoners might be inclined to act up just for screen time. Surely they might be inclined to remain incarcerated so they can remain on the show. How is this really helping?

This show is insane! I can not believe these young girls are acting this way! It is like wild animals in a cage! Watching this will make you want to reach in the TV and give some of the girls a strong long hug and let them know they are LOVED and worth more then how they are behaving! I do not understand why they are not punished for how they speak! Their choice of words is just dreadful and should be void. I can not wrap my head around parents who have these children and do not teach them right from wrong! If you can not be a GREAT role model for your child then place them in a loving home.

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.

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.