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Directed by Arnold Shapiro, this 1970s documentary brought 17 juvenile delinquents to a maximum security New Jersey prison and left them to spend the day with some of the most notoriously dangerous cr... read more read more...iminals behind bars. The inmates -- who were, for the most part, serving life sentences -- offered the troubled kids a disturbingly realistic, no-holds-barred account of prison life and all of the brutality that comes with the territory. Scared Straight! won an Oscar in 1978 for Best Documentary Feature, and was revisited in the mid-'90s when MTV recreated the show in hopes of reaching new young delinquents. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi

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Unrated, 52 min.

Directed by: Arnold Shapiro

Release Date: January 1, 1978

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DVD Release Date: August 26, 2003

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  • philliprenke
    July 3, 2010
    philliprenke
    I know they do this kind of stuff all the time now, but it was shocking to see kids from the 70's going into this prison and being cursed at and threatened to be raped if they ever set foot in that prison. The dvd is good because they go back and catch up with all the kids from t... read morehe movie some twenty years later.

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