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[in_seoul_2003]

Wonderfully choreographed. The part when they start dancing is great.

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=879021&fr=&cache=1

[IncognitoHFX]

That's nothing short of awesome. I wish more prisons did constructive things like that with the inmates.

[Rteacher]

ABC news (in New York) had a segment on it yesterday. Here's from an article on their website:

...The prisoners at Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center may have seen "Jailhouse Rock" a few too many times.

Hundreds of inmates at the prison in Cebu, Philippines, have taken to performing large-scale dance numbers to such classics as Michael Jackson's "Thriller," Queen's "Radio Gaga" and several songs from the "Sister Act" films to help pass the time while serving sentences or awaiting trial.

"There's a time to dance and a time to sing," said chief administrator Patrick Rubio of the Directorate of Operations within the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in the Philippines.

"If they say laughter is the best medicine, how much more for dancing?" Rubio said.

Showing off the Talent

According to an eyewitness account of the facility by Adam Jasper of Vice magazine's Web site Viceland.com, the detention center is run by Byron F. Garcia, who posted videos of several of the dance numbers on YouTube to show off his prisoners' talent.

The most popular of the nine videos is the prison's reenactment of Michael Jackson's classic video "Thriller," which has already been visited by a whopping 1.3 million users since it was uploaded in April.

"While the goal is to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, such may not happen if it is done in a manner deemed unpleasurable," Garcia told Filipino's Sun Star publication. "Music, being the language of the soul, is added to that regimen."

Melita Thomeczeck, the Philippine's deputy consulate general in New York, is not surprised by the prison's unconventional rehabilitation regimen.

"It's probably like some kind of 'ra-ra' event. Probably something the warden set up to pull their minds off other things."

'It's Normal to Dance'

The productions are huge � more than 900 inmates are involved in the routines � and though a small group of dancers makes up the core of the routine, every prisoner has a part and each one seems completely absorbed in the performance.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=3415920

[yesnoyesyesno]

i got a better one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w21sqJDQbsM

kim jong il > philipine prison guards

[browneyedgirl]

I bet Stephen Chow is kicking himself for not thinking of a Thriller prison dance scene.

[mercury]

it must be nice to be able to line dance together after all the robbing, rapeing, and killing those guys did.

[Len8]

Imagine the cons doing something like this in Sing Sing, or San Quentin.