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 ...

April 1, 2005 -- -- A Pennsylvania man allegedly wanted to scare his son out of taking up a dangerous lifestyle, but the father and five of his friends, who are guards at a juvenile detention center, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It felt like a lot of Saturday Night Live on display in one moment. He says he’s 'All the Way Ray ...

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 ...

This film shows the Scared Straight program that has hardened convicts from maximum security prisons tell their stories about the truth about prison life in order to ...

Ashley Tropez has died. More than a decade after she appeared on A&E's Beyond Scared Straight, a reality show that aimed to help troubled youth turn their lives around, Tropez was found dead in an ...

On your feet! Now sit down! Kenan Thompson is back behind bars on Saturday Night Live to scare straight some troubled teens — and he's bringing in some heavy hitters as reenforcement. Sunday's sketch ...

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 ...

Robert A. Iger, as CEO of the Disney Corporation, it’s time for you to get A&E TV’s "Beyond Scared Straight" off the air. Put in a call to your two A&E equity partners at the Hearst Corp. and ...

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 ...