No Kinda Life is a stark and biting documentary filmed entirely behind bars at Louisiana State Penitentiary featuring prisoners "telling it like it is" about losing their freedom at an early age for drug related crimes.

In dramatic settings, they relate their individual stories, telling how and why they were locked away, describing drab daily prison routine and inmate struggle, and so doing impart a strong sense of personal loss and regret. Students watching get the big, realistic picture of their prison workdays, which begins at 4 a.m., and experience close-up interviews that are revealing and extremely moving. Ultimately this "living testimony" concludes with compelling advice to teenagers not to choose drugs, not to let crack cocaine and other dangerous substances ruin their lives.

No Kinda Life will make a difference in your drug prevention presentations. It will make your most at-risk students sit up and take notice. It will grab their attention and hold it long enough to provoke "scared straight" thinking. Because of the vulnerability of the younger prisoners their message will get through to viewers immediately and directly.