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omarfor-orchestra · 1 year

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I do think people who work in the field should roast the show because it was supposed to bring attention to some kind of realities that get ignored more often than everything else and it became a soap opera instead but consider. I like it.

#no ok listen i have thoughtstm #as someone who admittedly ignored the aforementioned realities and is trying to learn more about them after watching the show bc it opened #my eyes #you have no idea how difficult it is to find information about juvenile prisons #it is difficult enough for normal prisons but juvanile ones? it's like they don't exist #and they have so many fucking problems #so many #every time i try to explain what i found out i get mad #jesus christ they're kids and no one cares about them #and i hoped the show would do the same thing to other people as it did to me ie open their eyes about those problems #(I'm not saying it's realistic. it's just a rai fiction after all they didn't even have money to make s1 come on but it made me say 'let's #see how things really are' and then i got mad about it bc i thought they were better and they're not)#it didn't #the kids keep being ignored. the problems are still there. people literally cross the street in front of jails as if the 'unworthyness'#could be passed to them through osmosis or something #they could do so much with this fame and success and money they're making #but they do nothing and this scary because the original aim was to raise awareness not romanticize #s1 was very clear on this aspect it was horrible and crude it wanted to say hey kids. these dynamics are bad and will get you killed #now it's very different #and i get why organizations are mad #but i still think that if what happened to me happened to a few other people than the show worked and I'm grateful for it #i do have names of organisations if anyone is interested #and I'll write an article on the actual situation one day

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