Scared straight

Scared straight! profiles a unique juvenile crime-prevention program at New Jersey's Rahway maximum-security prison, recounting the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the prison with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. In an attempt to scare the kids out of their criminal ways, prisoners took turns describing prison life, emphasizing its worst features. Scared straight! 20 years later traces the subsequent lives of the teens and convicts featured in the original documentary.

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"Peter Falk hosts this expose about juveniles who are "scared straight". This critically acclaimed program paints a gruesome and brutal picture of what really goes on in prison and how the prisoners themselves are the best deterrent for crime. Juveniles are brought into New Jersey's Rahway Prison - a maximum security prison. The "lifers" are the teachers who tell the kids what prison is all about - such as the badly scarred "lifer" who was gang raped his first day in prison. He leaves nothing to the kids' imaginations - every sordid detail is pounded into them. Other graphic accounts of prison violence are offered as the juveniles see and hear about the convicts grim lives."
"Controversial, raw documentary about an inmate-run effort at New Jersey's Rahway penitentiary designed to literally frighten the delinquency out of juveniles by means of confrontations between the young lawbreakers and hardened criminals serving long sentences for crimes of violence."
"Scared straight! profiles a unique juvenile crime-prevention program at New Jersey's Rahway maximum-security prison, recounting the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the prison with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. In an attempt to scare the kids out of their criminal ways, prisoners took turns describing prison life, emphasizing its worst features. Scared straight! 20 years later traces the subsequent lives of the teens and convicts featured in the original documentary."@en
"A powerful documentary about the famous Rahway Prison program, which has been called the most effective deterrent against juvenile crime in existence. Academy award 1978: Special documentary award. CINE Golden Eagle."@en
"Presents a documentary about adolescent offenders who visit Rahway Prison in New Jersey where they experience the realities of life in a meximum security prison."@en
"Juveniles are brought into a maximum security prison and told by the prisoners what life is really like behind bars, as a deterrent to their committing crime."@en
"Scared straight! profiles a unique juvenile crime-prevention program at New Jersey's Rahway maximum-security prison, recounting the day seventeen teenage lawbreakers spent inside the prison with the some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. In an attempt to scare the kids out of their criminal ways, prisoners took turns describing prison life, emphasizing it's worst features. Scared straight! 20 years later traces the subsequent lives of the teens and convicts featured in the original documentary."@en
""Hard-time" convicts, members of New Jersey's Rahway State Prison "Lifers" group, run a project inside the prison in which they harangue hard-core delinquents, giving them obscenity-littered descriptions of rape, murder, and other awful facts of prison life. This Oscar-winning documentary is preceded by a warning concerning the graphic language involved."@en
"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. In face-to-face contact with prisoners, they experience intimidation and sexual taunts and are told what it takes to survive behind bars."@en
"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. In face-to-face contact with prisoners they experience intimidation and sexual taunts and are told what it takes to survive behind bars."@en