Scared Straight Program

A new kind of program to prevent teenage crime takes young people into prisons,where they spend several hours behind bars with criminals. In the past few years, at least two sdozen states have adopted forms of theis program. The specific programs are known by “scared straight” that is the title of the award winning TV film made ar rrahway srare prison in 1978 and narionallly televised in the spring of fame : it cannot, however , be considered an effective deterrent to teenage crime.
The people who gave been most impreesed by the scared straight program maintain that it shocks and frightens young people away from lives of crime. But a few frightening hours are not enough to change.