A Different Reality: Ex-Participants Are Giving Us A Sneak Peak Into The Curious World of Reality TV Shows

By now, it’s clear that many of the people that appear on Scared Straight don’t end up changing their lives for the better. However, in this story, we see one of the rare instances in which it appears that the show did precisely what it claimed it would do.

The storyteller here mentions a young lady who was acting out. Her parents put her on Scared Straight, and it looks like she really got scared straight. While we don’t see this happen often, this participant gave up their former behavior habits and now lives a normal life with a loving family.