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Comment by ♪✿((*❤*))✿♪ on November 4, 2010 at 6:00am

Amazing performance, tribute to [MJ-RIP]...

Comment by Swëët♥ԼƠƔЄ♥ on October 31, 2010 at 1:33am

Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 31, 2010 at 1:48am

To all MJ Fans, Here's another Michael Jackson routine, our second since Thriller. Performed to the public on July 25, 2009. I hope this video doesn't get blocked or removed due to copyright issues.

Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 31, 2010 at 1:29am

A tribute performed by 1,500 CPDRC Inmates on June 27, 2009 in memory of Michael Jackson. Completed in 10 hours after receiving word that the King of Pop passed away. May he always be remembered. "Ben" and "I'll be there" were sung by Michael when he was still younger! "We are the World" was composed and organized by MJ.

Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 31, 2010 at 1:26am

1,500 plus CPDRC inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, Cebu, Philippines at practice! This is not the final routine, and definitely not a punishment! just a teaser.

Comment by εїз♪£övë♪εїз✿⊱╮ on October 31, 2010 at 1:23am

Where in the world can you find “dancing inmates”? Only in the Philippines , or more specifically only in Cebu . The whole concept of discipline and dancing as methods of rehabilitation has never been in the books. It deviates and does not conform to the principles of jail management and penology. But a son of a political scion transcended from his political and landlord roots to do “the very least for his brethren" – turn dregs into human beings.

Byron Garcia – son of former Cebu Governor Pablo Garcia and brother of now Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia – could easily have pursued a comfortable corporate career being a management graduate. But he chose to be with the thugs of society, he chose to be with the dangerous men of society and he chose to be in a thankless and demeaning job where his relatives thought it was such a crazy thing to do. What moved him into this mission?

Byron was catapulted to international fame when he made 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Videos of the dance and exercise routines that he uploaded on YouTube has since had 70 million hits over the past two years and over 40,000 subscribers. The dancing inmates concept also brought in international networks like CNN, BBC and magazines like TIME and NEWSWEEK dispatch their crew and correspondents to the Philippines and then to the mountains of Cebu to actually see “dancing inmates.” The CPDRC is precariously located at the mountains of Cebu City . Byron was also awarded as one of Cebu’s Ten Outstanding Men because of his unique concept in jail management and rehabilitation.

Closing in to seal your doom.

Why Thriller? Byron was assigned as Capitol security Consultant when his sister Gwen assumed office as governor in 2004. Byron had enough background on security because he put up his own security and detective agency before his present job. But to manage a jail was completely a different minefield. “The jail is a living hell,” was how he described the nature of his job. It was in “this living hell” that Byron found the crusade in his life. Lyrics of the rap refrain from Rod Temperton’s song Thriller which was sang and performed by Michael Jackson reads;
"The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller.”

According to Byron, whether inside or outside the jail, people in this world seal their own tomb and are closing in their own doom by foul and decadent cultures in a society. Nobody can get away from this doom in life for as long as they don’t stay away from “the evil of the thriller” or from the evils of sin. The “living hell” in jails is about corruption, violence, gang culture, culture of the insane, culture of deceit and betrayal. “If someone wants to see hell on Earth, if someone wants to come face to face with the grizzly ghouls from immortal tombs, one only has to visit the jails,” Byron would say.

Rehabilitation is not rehabilitation when it is anchored on punitive action. Byron believes that rehabilitation has to be anchored on compassion so that a sinner can be separated from the sin, so the degenerate from the culture and humanity be regenerated into the humane.

"Rehabilitation has to be anchored on bringing out the best in men instead of the worst in men", Byron says. Certain that his new concept of Rehabilitation in jails is effective, Byron is confident that its impact would eventually spill over into a rehabilitated society. If rehabilitation is ineffective in jails, then any society into which hardened criminals are released and re-integrated, seals itself and closes in on its doom. "If we make jails a living hell for these inmates, then we might just be turning ou