Scared Straight Collection

3 movies

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

Movies

Scared Straight!

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!

1978

7.3

Scared Straight! Another Story

1980

Movie

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.

Scared Straight! Another Story

1980

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

6.8

1999

Movie

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

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later

1999

6.8