Scared Straight!

Starring:Peter Falk
Director: Arnold Shapiro
Studio: New Video Group
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
Description
Their crimes included assault and battery, arson, auto theft, breaking and entering, and possession and distribution of narcotics. Although they were still minors, these juvenile delinquents were already on a one-way path to doing hard time.

Description

Their crimes included assault and battery, arson, auto theft, breaking and entering, and possession and distribution of narcotics. Although they were still minors, these juvenile delinquents were already on a one-way path to doing hard time.

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Customer Reviews:

Attention getter........2007-03-03

I teach a high school alternative class. The students I teach either have been or are on their way to jail.(Sad to say, yes, but it's true.) They started off rolling their eyes but when the video began, they sat up straight and watched. This video made them think. The students left my class that day knowing that they are not as tough as they thought in the beginning. WARNING: the language is explicit! But hey, they hear it anyway.

Bored Straight.......2006-06-12

This is NOT what I expected. I thought this was going to be a "documentary". I thought this was going to show the kids being booked, wearing the prison uniforms, eating with the inmates, going to the yard, and then being locked in their cells. None of that happened.
Instead, this entire film was shot in one room, with the kids in a big circle, and the inmates or (lifers), lecturing and yelling in their faces, about getting raped, shanked, and beaten to death in prison.
This is a good educational film to show at special schools for troubled youth. Or the Y.M.C.A..
This is not a movie to watch for fun or entertainment.

SCARED STRAIGHT IN THE WRONG WAY.......2006-03-02

This movie had a big impact on me. I attempted suicide two times
after I watched this, because I know I was headed for prison for a crime I did not commit.So much for the positive impact.
This proves the prison system completely fails as a correctional facility.The students or convicts should get no praise, what so ever,for this trash.

Watch your Cornhole, Bud.......2005-11-01

12 Poor White, Black, and Hispanic trash teenagers convicted of minor offenses take a trip to "the slammer" to meet up with some convicts.

The convicts goal is to scare the teenagers into cleaning up their act.

If not, the teens will have to face rape, subservience, torture, degradation, and death on a daily basis at the hands of other convicts.

The convicts get in the face of the teens and scare some sense into most of them.

Their is a follow up done on both the convicts and teens ten years later.

It turns out 3 teens/convicts died of AIDS related diseases, 2 of the convicts got out of prison, got busted for drugs in one case, sexual assault in the other. Quite the role models, eh?

If you have a troubled teen, you may want to have them watch this.

If not though, I can't say this was entertaining. I mean who wouldn't love an ignorant, muscle-bound, stinky-ass convict yelling at you at the top of his lungs about how he and his boys will be inserting something into your kiester if you choose to enter prison.

Not for the kiddies.

Scared Straight - The world should see it...........2005-09-08

Scared Straight should be played on a wide screen and stereo sound in every high school. Period.
The crime rate would plummet!
My congratulations to the producers. A world class effort.
Ross McNab

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