Beyond Scared Straight

2013 • A&E
4.7
610 reviews
TV-14
Rating
Eligible
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Season 1 episodes (7)

1 Chowchilla
1/13/11
Season-only
Inmates at the Valley State Prison for Women use a combination of confrontation, information, and communication to try to keep five young girls from becoming convicts.
2 Jessup
1/20/11
Season-only
Five teens learn the harsh realities of prison life at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup, where dozens of menacing inmates, including convicted murderers, surround the kids and taunt them.
3 Corcoran
1/27/11
Season-only
Hardened criminals at the California prison that is home to Charles Manson give teens a taste of life on the yard, where any prisoner can approach the kids and give them a feel for the dangers of prison life.
4 Lieber
2/3/11
Season-only
Six at-risk teens experience Lieber Correctional Facility in Ridgeville, SC, to get a first-hand look and feel at life on the inside.
5 San Quentin
2/10/11
Season-only
Four at-risk teens are brought to one of the nation's most infamous prisons to participate in the S.Q.U.I.R.E.S. program?
6 Hagerstown
2/24/11
Season-only
Maryland inmates give a group of five at-risk teens a taste of prison when they are forced to eat "Lock-up Loaf," a brick of baked mush served to unruly prisoners.
7 Jessup Women's Prison
3/3/11
Season-only
Five at-risk girls are subjected to a terrifying simulation of the degrading process of entering a female prison.

About this show

Beyond Scared Straight - produced by Arnold Shapiro, profiles the new approach to keeping today teens from becoming tomorrow prisoners.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
610 reviews
Julieta Salguero
July 5, 2017
It's pretty good but when I go to the "Dougherty country ga, Weekend Warriors" There a part when one of the kids get pulled to the inmate in the intro and I want see the whole about what happens there. ~Thanks
Jackie Carter
September 7, 2018
Awesome show! As a parent and grandmother , I think it's great to have your kids sit and watch this show. It's like a law class in it's rawest form. Thanks to all the inmates and Officers that bring this show to us
ya boy madi
January 14, 2015
I think this show has changed a lot of people. I've been to jail it's not fun. I was just there for a field trip but it scared me so bad
74 people found this review helpful