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 ...

Carl Cannon wants to make things clear up front: He is not in the business of doing scared-straight programs. "This is different," Cannon, the founder of Elite Community Outreach, said before a Friday ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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 1978 when I was 10 years old the first "Scared Straight" documentary was released. Narrated by Peter Falk, TV's "Columbo," the film followed the experience of "juvenile delinquents," teens we would ...

Developers of the Shreveport data center project addressed concerns from residents at a community meeting Wednesday night (Dec. 17, 2025). Tyesha Netter says her 5-year-old son with autism was able to ...

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 ...

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 ...