Turned Out Video Analysis

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After Watching the video “Turned Out”, the video seems like it was trying to prove that not everyone is meant to be in prison because certain things happens. The things that do happen to majority of the people in prison can change their lives in prison and even when they get out of prison. This video gave the audience some insight to what inmates really deal with in prison view of perspective vs the outside view of perspective. However the video explains to the audience how prison rape is so serious that in the long run how it effects whoever that has been a victim of prison rape.
Throughout the video the word Inmate Code was mention a lot. Inmate code is a term that is defined as values and norms of prison system, which is also a set of rules that inmates go by one another. In the Correction textbook it describes how inmates arrive to prison
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The most interesting part that was said in the video is how they consider the people in prison is their family more than their own family outside of prison since they see the people more in prison instead of their own family. That was a moment that you could imagine how it is like not seeing your family on the outside but you consider the people in prison your family. Like you could understand where they were coming from, but then again it’s like those people you call your family in prison is not going to be their when your sentence is up and your family on the outside doesn’t deal with you or help you out. In most cases majority of these inmates that get out ends right back up in prison because all they know is what they was taught in prison. In this society it is sad to see these inmates don’t have a clue in prison to keep to up what is going on out on the outside the prison in the world so they know that they do have opportunity out in the world besides of going back to jail for something they did

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