Father, Guards Face Charges in 'Scared Straight' Stunt. By ABC News. April 1, 2005, 7:10 AM.

Scared Straight! After all these years, it's still jarring. Who's more frightening, Leatherface or a one-eyed murderer who stands around five-foot-six and is an inch from your face?

Beyond Scared Straight More than 30 years after the original "Scared Straight!" won both an Oscar and Emmy, producer Arnold Shapiro has revived his documentary as an A&E series.

Scared Straight! 20 Years Later includes footage from the original, ... In two hours, you see teens boast of misdeeds – burglary, shoplifting, mugging – and then face the pros, ...

Arnold’s “Beyond Scared Straight” hews to the premise of the original and proves to be just as ... 13, a shoplifter who looks as if he’s 9, boasts, “If an inmate gets in my face, ...

Hollywood Flashback: When a Dire Message in 1978’s ‘Scared Straight’ Led to Oscar "What I'm most proud of is the way it saved lives," says producer-director Arnold Shapiro of the feature doc ...

The debut of A&E's new unscripted show, Beyond Scared Straight, attracted 3.7 million viewers, making it the network's most-watched series to date. Based on the Emmy and Academy Award-winning ...

Sheriff Kevin Sproul and Lt. Terron Hayes were surprised when the boys featured in the "Beyond Scared Straight" program, aired last week on the A & E network, met them at the Hilton Garden Inn for ...