I was in Windsor,Connecticut,US in about 1987.A guy was showing me around the place and in one area/suburb we saw a pickup with a cage full of teenagers being backed INTO phpbb_a car park bay next to a small shopping strip. There were about 10 or so in the cage.
The guy told me it was a local law used to display those who tried to buck the system by damaging property,truancy and stuff of that level or more.
Kids were about 11 to 18 or so.
When we came back after about 2 hours or so every one of them was trying to hide under the straw they were sitting on,a lot of their parents were in attendance and openly chastising them all.
This was on a Saturday afternoon,they had spent the morning down at the jail being lectured and the afternoon being on show,messing up their weekend.
The guy told me the first time they resorted to these tactics more than 150 kids were enrolled and after that the numbers and most local problems dropped dramatically each week.
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