from yahoo's oddly enough section
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=3&u=/nm/20040609/od_nm/odd_mexico_jail_dc "It is a unique program to help the most psychologically and socially damaged prisoners, whose grave crimes have shaken society," prison governor Arturo Herrera told Reuters.
"We play them Mozart and give them occupational, play and aroma therapies to relax them for evaluation."
The group receiving the special treatment includes murderers and rapists serving up to 40-year sentences. They will be integrated into the mainstream prison system once they have been evaluated.
The treatment fills the air with musky scents like sandalwood. But those convicted of some of the hundreds of murders of women in the area are not able to enjoy it. They are held in a separate isolation block.
Mexican jails are among the most overcrowded and violent in the world. The Ciudad Juarez prison, built in 1980 to house 1,600 prisoners, has 4,020 inmates crammed into its cells.
I can only imagine what happens to a guy in the shower room who dances to a waltz.
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