A film by Arnold Shapiro

Peter Falk narrates this documentary about criminally inclined youths visiting a prison and getting to talk to dependable inmates who are trying to alarm them straight. It is the Rahway Status Prison in Novel Jersey. The year is 1978. It is called the “lifers program”. The inmates bag no special compensation for participating in the program, but they hope that this program will assist maintain some kids out of prison. 17 teenagers are sent to the program, it was a sort of a last finish for these kids before prison. These aren’t reliable kids, they have committed theft, arson, armed robbery, assault, and more. The inmates are some of the worst convicts in the prison system, dismal men who have done spoiled crimes.

Scared Straight is an uncensored recognize at this session in the prison. The inmates approach in and they each seize turns talking of their experiences, but rather than fair a dry tale of their prison time (and how they got there) this is highly emotional. The inmates roar at the kids, curse at them, and explicitly protest them exactly what will happen to them if they slay up in prison and exactly what the prison culture is like. It is violent, always threatening, and every day is a risk of being the prisoner’s last. The inmates gave every possible detail, more than you might want to know but everything you would need to know. Going to prison may seem like a game, a short easy perambulate, but these convicts dwelling you straight. Some of the kids appeared to be approach tears and visible intimidated by the convicts. The inmates explained what being intimidated would regain them in prison, too.

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This was a much documentary. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary and it should be required viewing for any kid who starts getting in difficulty with the law. Perhaps it should unprejudiced be required viewing in high school. There is a follow-up with the kids 20 years later. Amazingly enough, 16 out of 17 of the fresh group have stayed out of prison. It was an incredibly successful program and the men (and women) said that if it wasn’t for the lifer’s program, they probably would have kept committing crimes. We also gain to eye some of the convicts 20 years later, the ones who are aloof alive. Some have been able to effect their sentence and stop dapper, others had some problems and remain gradual bars.

This is an astounding documentary and I don’t believe it lost any of its power 20 years after it first aired. This should be required viewing for any teenager and I highly recommend this documentary.

In 1978, a program was started by inmates of Rahway maximum-security prison in Unique Jersey where a petite group of juvenile delinquents were brought into the prison to meet with inmates. The inmates who created the program glean no special treatment, no rewards for participating in the program, as the goal is to try and give something assist, to try and set a life before it’s too gradual.

Now preserve in mind, these teens, ages ranging from 15 to 17, were some of the worst of the worst, their crimes ranging from arson, breaking and entering, theft, stout theft auto, assault, etc. The goal was to reveal these teens the consequences of a life of crime, the harshness of the prison system, a recognize into the reality of where they where headed.

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The documentary, hosted by Peter Falk, starts out by interviewing the teens prior to their entry into the prison. These kids are extremely cocky, and it would be laughable if it weren’t so shaded. They talk tough, act tough, and seem to have very cramped regard for their actions. On entering the prison, they are processed, fair like any other convicted felon, and lead to cells where they spent and hour before their two-hour meeting with a retract group of prisoners. To these kids, this was unbiased an opportunity to gather out of school for a day, but it became so worthy more.

The prisoners berated the youths in an worry to display them that the kids weren’t as tough as they belief they were, and also gave them a precise favorable ogle into what prison life is really like. Some of the kids seemed to the point of tears, and all seemed shrinking and very shaken. Some prisoners recounted harsh experiences within the prison, while others let the kids know exactly what would happen to them if and when they ever entered the prison system. The prisoners were literally in their faces, trying to come by their respective points across. Afterwards, when the kids left, they were interviewed again, and their demeanor had visibly changed. No longer were they chubby of themselves, but very humbled and seemingly very troubled at the prospect of ever having to raze up in a plot like that.

Also included is the follow up documentary, Tremulous Straight: 20 Years Later, hosted by Danny Glover. The filmmakers attempt to follow up with the kids and prisoners, allowing us to look where they are now. Amazingly, 16 out of the 17 children in the pilot program managed to turn their lives around and, for the most piece, quit out of difficulty. Many are productive members of society, and have children of their occupy. Also shown is the impact on the prisoners who participated in the program. It’s amusing how this program, created and hasten by convicts to befriend worried youths also ended up helping the convicts, as a number of them seem to have seen the error of their ways and were working on rebuilding their lives.

All these years later, the program is unexcited running, and it’s estimated that about 80% of the children who participate manage to turn their lives around, and finish out of prison. Quite a success rate.

The impact of viewing this on video opposed to being there in person, having a convict shout at you inches away from your face, probably isn’t as strong, but I judge the message is, and many younger and older people would secure a lot of of watching this movie.
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