I first watched Scared Straight when i was a kid - it was a powerful experience, the level of profanity wasn't what disturbed me, but the raw honesty of the convicts' words... Scared Straight is about a group of teens who've had trouble with the law and are considering taking a life of crime as a future career - at the beginning, they're all interviewed, and it's sad and pathetic to hear them boast about how they steal things, beat people up, drink a lot and take drugs - and all in a very relaxed, self-indulging tone, like they're actually proud of it... They give an image of tough kids who can survive the streets, get beaten and strike back ten times worst, capable of murdering to survive even... at first they don't take seriously their trip to Rawhay, a Penitentiary, where they'll visit convicts and see things teens so young shouldn't have to see ever... they mock the convicts at first, talking how they're going there just to skip school for one day and have a good laugh with the poor convicts... That changes when they get in Rawhay - in their first minutes, they're subjected to convicts who shout and insult from their cells at them, making sexual proposals and threatening to kill them... that's their first experience in jail... Scared Straight reaches its heights when the kids are confronted with several convicts who are doing 25 years or more, in a room... then they're all alone, and we see each convict having their time telling them about life in jail... It's not ...