Rebellious British teenagers were seen covering their noses as they were taken to the morgue in a behavioral TV experiment which viewers praised as a ‘great life lesson’.
The eight youngsters, aged between 15 and 17, were sent to America’s toughest prison, Florida’s Brevard County Jail, to correct their anti-social behaviour after getting in trouble with the law.
And in the third and final episode of Channel 4’s Banged Up: Teens Behind Bars, Layla, 16, Kallum, 15, Korede, 17, Jordan, 17, Red, 15, Hugh, 16, Tunde, 16, and Whitney, 15, were seen looking on in horror as an officer showed them the bodies of murdered gang members.
While some viewers branded the approach – designed to show the teens what could happen to them if they continued on their current path – ‘extreme’, others argued the tough tactic would teach them a life lesson.
The final episode of Banged Up: Teens Behind Bars saw the British teenagers covering their noses as they were taken to the morgue in a behavioral TV experiment which viewers praised as a ‘great life lesson’
The grizzly episode saw the teenagers being taken to a morgue where they were shown the corpses of gangland murder victims and given a glimpse at their organs in jar
One shocked viewer wrote: ‘A little extreme taking them to the morgue hands over my eyes’.
Agreeing, another added: ‘Surprised none of the teens threw up or passed out with the smell from the morgue’.
However others were all for the tactic, with one writing: ‘I think taking them to the morgue may have actually worked their whole demeanor changed’.
Elsewhere one agreed, writing: ‘Taking the kids to the morgue – excellent work’.
‘Banged up teens behind bars great programme hope these youngsters change their ways for the better especially after their visit to the morgue’, another added.
One shocked viewer wrote: ‘A little extreme taking them to the morgue hands over my eyes’
‘Banged up teens behind bars great programme hope these youngsters change their ways for the better especially after their visit to the morgue’, another added
Calling it a life lesson, one admitted: ‘I know it’s rotten of me ..but I can’t bloody wait for these little ****** to see a dead body in the police morgue ..Life lessons they’ll hopefully never forget’.
‘Great programme hope these youngsters change their ways for the better especially after their visit to the morgue’, another added.
Some even called for the UK to introduce similar techniques, writing: ‘We so need a programme like this in uk prisons. Hopefully these teens going on to lead crime free lives. Great programme’.
The final grizzly episode saw the teenagers being taken to a morgue where they were shown the corpses of gangland murder victims and given a glimpse at their organs in jar.
‘This is the final destination when people make the wrong decisions’, the officer was heard warning them.
‘This is what happens, okay? You’re stacked on a shelf and you’re laid on a table.
Calling it a life lesson, one admitted: ‘I know it’s rotten of me ..but I can’t bloody wait for these little ****** to see a dead body in the police morgue ..Life lessons they’ll hopefully never forget’
‘This is the final destination when people make the wrong decisions’, the officer was heard warning them as he showed the teens the morgue
The eight youngsters, aged between 15 and 17, were sent to America’s toughest prison, Florida’s Brevard County Jail, to correct their anti-social behaviour after getting in trouble with the law
‘It doesn’t matter what clothes you wear, who you are, you’ll sit in here like all of these people are doing, waiting for that time to come.
‘That smell will always stay with you, you will never ever forget that.’
Taking in the gruesome sight, Whitney, bravely admitted: ‘I know someone who has been murdered and I can’t sleep because I think about death so much.
‘I don’t know why, but I think about it a lot. What happens to you after you’ve died? It makes me think about life hard.’
However the series had a happy ending, and showed the participants going off on different paths, including one teen who decided to return to college.
Banged Up: Teens Behind Bars is available to stream on Channel 4OD.
Teenagers were given a taste of the strict regime serial offenders are put through in America’s toughest prisons
Punishments included press ups and a dressing down from the tough guards at the prison in Florida
Pictured: Channel 4’s Banged Up: Teens Behind Bars sees Layla, 16, Kallum, 15, Korede, 17, Jordan, 17, Red, 15, Hugh, 16, Tunde, 16, and Whitney, 15, staying in America’s toughest prisons