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Exciting Prison!!
We’ve all heard about how horrible and scary prisons can be, haven’t we? But I was browsing Youtube today, when I saw a video named ”Thriller” (original upload) with a thumbnail showing guys wearing orange clothes. I didn’t know what it was about, however I anticipated that it looked like a choreographed dance or something. Since I have been one of the biggest fan of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, I was tempted to click on it.. that I did of course.
I was surprised to see that the video is of a Prison called CPDRC (Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center), which is a maximum security prison in Cebu, in the Cebu Province, the Philippines. Before I carry on with the history and details about the CPDRC, check out the video below. For the first time after watching this video, I thought maybe prisons are not that bad after all 
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Thriller – CPDRC
I was intrigued by watching this video, and I thought to dig out more and find out what this prison CPDRC is all about. The dance choreography was started by Byron Garcia, who was the official security advisor to the Cebu government and was assigned the head of the prison by Gwendolyn Garcia (his brother), governor of Cebu Province. Byron initially wanted to introduce a program at CPDRC, where the prisoners would exercise for one hour everyday. But when he saw the waves of of prisoners exercising together, he thought of introducing marching routines with drums, but later moved on to making them dance on music.
Byron Garcia has his own Youtube Channel which can be accessed here. He first uploaded a prisoner choreography named Algorithm March, but that video was entirely ignored by the youtube population. But the next upload, “Thriller – by Michael Jackson” choreography, the one I posted above, got great publicity. In December 2007, the Thriller video of the CPDRC inmates was rated 5th of the top 10 viral videos by Times Magazine.
Google to find out more about the CPDRC. Check out some more videos by the CPDRC inmates below:
JUMP
CPDRC Song
I Need A Hero
Author: Sarosh Waiz
Hello there! I’m Sarosh Waiz, an Internet Entrepreneur and am currently the CEO of dimenXions Digital Workshop. This is my personal blog, and I use it to write about different topics which include marketing, advertising, football, creativity, new discoveries and random thoughts. Although I have been writing more generally since the the last few years, but have professionally started blogging since a few months. I am a MBA student at present, and had been working at Mindshare/GroupM initially as a Media Planner but later moving on to a role of Activation Strategist. During my last 2 years here, I have worked upon several international and local brands gaining professional marketing experience. Today, I stand as a professional marketer working to explore the digital medium to maximize marketing exposure and ROI for marketers and businesses. If you wish to contact me, please do visit my contact page. Stay around, and keep visiting. Bookmark my blog so we can stay in touch :).
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