Scared Straight!

It took going behind bars to keep them out.

Duration: 52 min
Release date: 1978-11-02
IMDB

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.

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Scared Straight!

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