The prison served as the filming location for the 1978 Academy Award winning documentary Scared Straight! The prison is also the birthplace of the Lifers' Group, in which prison inmates participate in a government-sponsored hip hop music program, recording such songs as "The Real Deal" and "Belly of the Beast" to discourage children from becoming criminals.
Rahway State Penitentiary is a prison in New Jersey, which is also where Scared Straight! was filmed.
13 of the 17 students featured in the 1978 documentary film Scared Straight! were from Ridgefield Park High School.
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