The Reality Check Program delivers straightforward education and personal accountability to foster meaningful family conversations and long-term community support without false promises or guarantees.
Real Education
Personal Accountability
Family Conversation
Community Support
Delivering unfiltered facts about choices, law enforcement, and life consequences.
Empowering young people to take full ownership of their daily actions and decisions.
Opening active dialog between parents, guardians, and youth to rebuild understanding.
Fostering grounded support networks and authentic hope without false promises.
Five-Part Program
Larry Lawton's Story
What Prison Is Really Like
What You Stand to Lose
Stepping Away
First-hand insight into choices, consequences, and the raw truth of federal prison.
A clear perspective on how reckless choices destroy future opportunities, relationships, and freedom.
Practical methods for recognizing bad influences, avoiding peer pressure, and choosing a better path.
An unvarnished look at daily confinement, loss of personal freedom, and institutional reality.
Larry shows the real obstacles, setbacks, and hard work involved in rebuilding a life after a bad choice. His message is direct: redemption is possible—and if he could turn his life around, anyone willing to do the work can too.
Available Offers
Family Video
Video Card Program
Subscription Service
$49.95
Direct Purchase
Organizations
Courts & Schools
For Parents
ONGOING PARENT GUIDANCE
Bring the Reality Check conversation into your home with the complete 67-minute program. Watch together, pause to discuss real choices and consequences, and return to the lessons whenever your family needs them. One-time access is $49.95.
Give families an easy way to access the Reality Check video through a QR code and password. Designed for courts, schools, law enforcement, businesses, and community organizations that want a practical educational resource they can distribute at scale. Contact us for organization pricing.
Stay supported beyond a single conversation. This monthly service for parents provides new educational videos, practical discussion tools, and ongoing guidance for navigating the challenges young people face at home, at school, and in the community.
Larry Lawton founded the Reality Check Program in 2007 after serving 12 years in federal prison. He uses lived experience to teach choices, accountability, consequences, and honest family conversation.
The Reality Check Program was recognized on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressman Bill Posey on November 21, 2013.
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321-499-0797
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