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Speaker 1: What would you do if one bad decision forced you

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Speaker 1: to choose between a maximum security prison or the most

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Speaker 1: brutal boot camp designed to be hell on earth. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: for Mark Lombardo, this was the choice he faced.

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Speaker 2: This one drill instructor came on the buck. He was

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Speaker 2: a big, massive correctional officer, you know, with that hard

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Speaker 2: brim like you would see in a movie, and a whistle,

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Speaker 2: and he blew it as probably the loud of swistle

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Speaker 2: I ever heard of my life. He said, you're in

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Speaker 2: here because your piece is a You are a number,

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Speaker 2: a New York state number, and you belong to us,

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Speaker 2: and we own you.

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Speaker 1: Shock incarceration, also known as boot camps, are short term,

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Speaker 1: highly regimented correctional programs that mimic military basic training. These

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Speaker 1: programs aim to provide a shock of prison life, emphasizing

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Speaker 1: strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, and rehabilitation programs. The

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Speaker 1: drill instructors would the front lines of these programs.

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Speaker 3: For them, it's a shock. They've never seen this. They

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Speaker 3: don't know what they expect. They don't get treated the same.

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Speaker 3: It's like equally worthless pieces, and they were scared. I

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Speaker 3: don't think any of them knew what they were getting into,

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Speaker 3: and they'd be shaken.

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Speaker 1: Mark had one chance to complete this program and had

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Speaker 1: no idea of the hell awaiting him the next six months.

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Speaker 4: The first night was overwhelming, and you don't know who's

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Speaker 4: next to you, and we didn't know what to expect

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Speaker 4: in the morning. Nobody tells you anything.

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Speaker 1: Listen to Shock Incarcerations starting on July twenty first, on

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