Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Scared straight! [videorecording] : 20 years later / written, produced & directed by Arnold Shapiro ; an Arnold Shapiro production ; in association with Paramount Stations Group, Inc.

Edition:

Standard format.

Publisher, Date:

[New York, N.Y.] : Docurama : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, c2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Seventeen teenage lawbreakers spend a day inside Rahway State Prison (later East Jersey State Prison) with some of New Jersey's most dangerous criminals. A selected group of convicts ("The Lifers") give the youth an in-your-face, no-holds-barred account about life in prison, in hopes of "scaring them straight". Twenty years later, filmmaker Arnold Shapiro catches up with both the kids and the prisoners to see how their lives have changed in the intervening decades.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated Docurama.

Subjects:

State Prison, Rahway, N.J.

East Jersey State Prison. Lifers' Group.

Prisoners -- New Jersey -- Rahway -- Attitudes.

Crime prevention -- New Jersey -- Rahway.

Imprisonment -- New Jersey -- Rahway.

Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Attitudes.

Prison visits -- New Jersey -- Rahway.

Juvenile delinquents -- Rehabilitation -- United States.

Documentary television programs.