Sheriff Bans Jerry Springer TV Show in Jail -- Stabbings Rates Lower [View All]

How's that for a sensational headline? It's not really factual either, I was going for an attention getter.

I realize that he did several other things that also helped influence the drop in stabbings. I just found it interesting that one of the changes sited was the loss their Jerry Springer privileges.

While I'm far from a fan of such programs, and I do agree that more educational viewing should have been selected in the first place, I wonder how much violence that one program could have been behind?

I've always felt that watching that sort of TV tended to turn a person into a mush-brained vegetable, or perhaps that that was their target audience. Goes to show what I know. :shrug:




Sheriff makes changes at Cook County Jail

CHICAGO, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, in a speech to the City Club of Chicago, outlined steps he has taken to regain full control of one the nation's largest jails.

Dart has ended the inmates abilities to get an orange, buy packs of Ramen noodles and lean against metal fences for starters, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday.

He has also taken away their right to watch "The Jerry Springer Show," as well as changed the style of toothbrushes, aerosol cans and lunch trays used in the jail.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/09/13/sheriff_makes_changes_at_cook_county_jail/5026/