Dr. Phil reads from his notes. “You had two teens who had put 666 on a nativity scene, so you had them lead a donkey through the streets with a sign that read ‘Sorry for the jackass offense.’ You had teens who flattened the school bus tires, so you had them throw a picnic for the school children.”

“These boys let the air out of the school busses’ tires,” Judge Cicconetti explains. “They had to close school that day. And I told them, ‘You are not going to deny these kids their school picnic.’”

“So instead of sitting in a jail cell, or doing some probation and going to see somebody, you had them do something relevant to their offense. They make good,” Dr. Phil surmises.

“It was relevant because they wrote out the invitations, they paid for the picnic, they supervised the picnic, they served the food at the picnic, and you know what? Everyone had a great time. Those kids are off to college; they have never been back,” Judge Cicconetti says.

“You had a man who called a cop a pig, so you had him stand on a corner with a pig and a sign that read ‘This is not a cop.’ You say that sometimes your stated goal is to humiliate and embarrass them?” Dr. Phil asks.

“So what? If it teaches them, and they don’t come back again, we’ve done our job,” he says.