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," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 12-year-old girl is reduced to tears during a frightening stay in Florida's Lake County Detention Center. A large 14-year-old who attacks his adoptive parents meets the hardened inmates and officers ...

Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch on the SNL50: The Anniversary Show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.” The sketch was a ...

Carl Cannon and Elite coordinated with the Peoria County Sheriff's Office to try and steer a group of seventh- and eighth-graders in a positive direction. Inmates in the Elite Re-Entry Program shared ...