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 ...

The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) said a contract was awarded for an Interstate 81 widening project in Roanoke County and Salem. Nelson County leaders set real estate tax rate at .56 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The show's longest-serving cast member revived his fan-favorite "Scared Straight" series for the first time in over a decade during the iconic sketch show's 50th anniversary special on Sunday.

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 ...