Beyond Scared Straight
TV-PG
7.3
2011
Crime
, Documentary
, Reality
Observing programs for troubled teens in which inmates reveal the realities of prison life in the hope of deterring them from a life of crime.
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Episode 12 : Hampton Roads Regional Jail
January. 19,2012
In the third-season finale, a teenage pyromaniac visits Virginia's Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where his mom works as a deputy.
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Episode 10 : Queen Anne's County, MD
January. 05,2012
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 center and a glimpse of their own funeral. Eighteen year-old partiers Daria and Christopher, who are girlfriend and boyfriend, will find their relationship tested when they are forced to testify against each other in court.
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Episode 9 : Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA
December. 29,2011
Siblings visit the Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Virginia.
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Episode 8 : San Bernardino County, CA - Girls
December. 22,2011
Teen girls visit a prison in San Bernardino County, Cal., where one of the teens gets into a confrontation that turns physical.
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Episode 7 : St. Clair County, IL
December. 15,2011
A prison in St. Clair, Ill., is visited by teens who are threatened by screaming inmates
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Episode 6 : Richland County, SC
December. 08,2011
At the Richland County Jail in South Carolina, troubled teens learn firsthand what jail is like when they are locked in cells for a terrifying all-night stay. Sleep is the last thing they will find though, as deputies and inmates rouse them repeatedly from their bunks during the physically grueling sleepover.
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Episode 5 : San Bernadino County, CA - Boys
September. 15,2011
In the second-season finale, San Bernardino County Jail in California is visited by four teens who are also taken to the morgue to witness the consequences of gang violence.
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Episode 4 : Oklahoma County, OK
September. 08,2011
Oklahoma County is in the midst of an epidemic of gangs and street crime. Angry, impressionable teens are being pulled into the gangster lifestyle. For two pairs of at-risk girls, jail seems to be no scarier than the streets. They defy deputies and threaten inmates. When one girl is finally pushed to the breaking point, she lashes out, physically assaulting a deputy and finding out what it really means to be arrested.
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Episode 3 : Portsmouth County, VA
September. 01,2011
An at-risk teen, with dreams of a rap career, gets a wake-up call win he sees where his love of drugs and gang activity will lead, during a visit to the Portsmouth County Jail in Virginia.
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Episode 2 : Oakland County, MI
August. 25,2011
Oakland County, Michigan is a stone's throw from Detroit's infamous 8-Mile and the streets here are just as tough - but the deputies and inmates who run Oakland County Jail's "Turn-Around" program are even tougher.
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Episode 1 : Mecklenburg County, NC
August. 18,2011
In Charlotte, NC, teen troublemaker Jose goes head-to-head with terrifying inmates and Sgt. Garrett, one of the toughest female jail deputies Beyond Scared Straight has come across. When Jose refuses to follow an order, Sgt. Garrett makes it her mission to break him down.
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