Prisons utilize many different methods of rehabilitating their inmates. Tons of research has been done in trying to find the best way to rehabilitate inmates.

The Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Philippines is being praised for using dance as a form of rehabilitation for inmates. Most of the routines the prisoners perform are choreographed to the music of Michael Jackson, and the prisoners seem to have a great time doing them!

A group of inmates at CPDRC became internationally famous nearly a decade ago when a video showing one of their routines went viral.

The prison posted the video online in the hopes of showing other prisons how dancing helped rehabilitate prisoners and decrease the violence amongst them. Three renowned guests stepped in to help with this routine: Michael Jackson’s longtime choreographer, Travis Payne and dancers Daniel Celebre and Dres Reid.

The three men helped the prisoners dance an intricate routine to Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” The routine is extremely powerful, as it is meant to symbolize how hard the lives of prisoners are in that society gives up on them.

“That was the most moving experience that I could have imagined,” Payne said of working with the prisoners. “I didn’t know that it would be so special. I knew that we were going there to celebrate Michael.”

We’d love to see other prisons adopt dancing as a form of rehabilitating inmates! Check out this amazing routine below, and SHARE this story so your friends and family can see this as well!