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New ?Scared Straight? Series Backs Discredited Strategy

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New ?Scared Straight? Series Backs Discredited Strategy January 12, 2011 by John Kelly Documentary maker takes on juvenile justice establishment Supporters and critics of ?scared straight? programs ? which generally entail youths visiting prisons and prisoners in hopes that the experience will change their delinquent behavior ? will take up battle this week in the court of public opinion for the first time since 1999. The reason: On Thursday, the A&E cable channel premieres a new reality show ?Beyond Scared Straight,? which follows scared straight participants in three states. On one side of the national scared straight debate are federal officials, juvenile justice researchers and advocates, who say the strategy has been proven time and again to be ineffective...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).