Courtest of The Sun
Louis Theroux is back doing what he does best and there seems to be a pattern emerging… Following Behind Bars and Law and Disorder in Philadelphia, he will be returning to our screens this Sunday interviewing imprisoned paedophiles who will never be set free.
Above all else the name Louis Theroux has become synonymous with encounters of the oddball variety, and I’m hoping that this week’s offering won’t disappoint…
Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles… Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit.
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The weirdest person on this show was the ‘therapist’ who couldn’t accept her authority being undermined by a patient who made a harmless remark that she claimed was tantamount to abuse.
I was also disappointed that Louis chose to only interview at any length the most serious of offenders.
The vast majority of inmates have commited only one sex related offence and often
only very minor offences and given that the actual recidivism rate for sex offenders as a whole is less than 5% it would seem that a good opportunity was missed to show the real injustice of Coalinga