How can this program be considered soft?
Guards screaming at the kids, cussing them out, threatening to beat them to a pulp, kids having to apologize to their parents in front of everyone; I don't see how a program like that can be considered "soft" by others.
I watched an episode the other night, and it was not only intense, but it even got rather disturbing when a group of juvenile delinquents went into part of the facility, and viewed a room filled with the dead bodies of their so-called homies.