Scared Straight Collection
Scared Straight Collection
Juvenile delinquents are confronted by prisoners in order to scare them away from lives of crime.

Scared Straight! (1978)

02 November, 1978
The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2007.

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1999)

15 April, 1999
Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about their lifestyles as teenagers.

Scared Straight! Another Story (1980)

06 November, 1980
A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.