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Scared Straight! is a 1978 American documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts.
Scared Straight! is a 1978 American documentary directed by Arnold Shapiro. Narrated by Peter Falk, the subject of the documentary is a group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour...
May 15, 2013 · The original scared straight from 1978 with follow ups on the youths and "lifers" 20 years later.
Scared Straight! (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Scared Straight!: Directed by Arnold Shapiro. With Peter Falk, Mickie Cold, Doug Cronin, Carlo Gallo. The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life.
The power of the original Scared Straight! program has inspired dozens of inmate-run intervention programs in men's and women's prisons across the country.
Apr 14, 1999 · A rite of passage for nearly every teenager 20 years ago, Arnold Shapiro’s groundbreaking documentary “Scared Straight!” has become an important tool in the crusade for crime prevention. “20...
This film shows the Scared Straight program that has hardened convicts from maximum security prisons tell their stories about the truth about prison life in order to convince kids that no crime is worth the risk of being incarcerated — Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>.
Rahway, Prisoners, Prison visits, Juvenile delinquents. Presents a documentary about adolescent offenders who visit Rahway Prison in New Jersey where they experience the realities of life in a maximum security prison.
Nov 11, 2005 · Scared Straight! In 1978 a bus-load of cocky juvenile delinquents are given a day off from school and sent to visit a federal maximum prison for an afternoon as a field trip. They are locked up for in a cell a half an hour.
