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4.29.08

Dancing Inmates in Philippines Become Tourist Attraction

A YouTube video of them dancing to Thriller (see below) made them famous. Now the inmates of the provincial prison on the island of Cebu in the Philippines are greeting audiences for a two-hour program on the last Saturday of every month. “Visitors can have their pictures taken with the prisoners,” Reuters reports. “They can also buy souvenir prison shirts.”