Beyond Scared Straight is an American true-crime TV series. It follows troubled teenagers who spend one to three days in prison or jail to learn from the inmates about the realities of being ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Cannon wants to make things clear up front: He is not in the business of doing scared-straight programs. "This is different," ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Courtesy of Hatrak Family; Villa Magna Publishing The juvenile awareness program ...

A one-year-old Fairfax County juvenile diversion program called TAP, aimed at educating at-risk youth about the unpleasant realities of prison life, seems to be achieving some anecdotal success and is ...

Exclu: A&E has ordered a sequel to the hugely influential and Oscar-winning 1978 documentary "Scared Straight!" Teaming with the documentary’s original producer, Arnold Shapiro, the cable network has ...

At the Queen Anne's County Jail "Reset" program in Maryland, six at-risk teens endure a four-day intervention program depicting the terrors of jail, a drunk driving fatality in a hospital trauma ...

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is hosting its C.H.O.I.C.E program to help correct the youth's paths.

Ashley Tropez, a woman who as a teenager appeared on the reality series “Beyond Scared Straight,” died Friday in what police say is an apparent homicide. She was 24. Tropez was discovered dead in an ...

Five teens learn the harsh realities of prison life at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup, where dozens of menacing inmates, including convicted murderers, surround the kids and taunt ...