Status: Released
Released Date: 1978-11-02
Runtime: 52 mins
Director: Arnold Shapiro
Writer: Arnold Shapiro
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Scared Straight!
Production Companies: Golden West Television
Production Countries: United States of America
Scared Straight Collection
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The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life
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Adults meet up with the people who changed their lives twenty years ago by confronting them about th
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A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in priso
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