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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 1 - Mecklenburg County, NC
Release Date: 2011-08-18In 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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Episode 2 - Oakland County, MI
Release Date: 2011-08-25Oakland 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 3 - Portsmouth County, VA
Release Date: 2011-09-01An 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 4 - Oklahoma County, OK
Release Date: 2011-09-08Oklahoma 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 5 - San Bernadino County, CA - Boys
Release Date: 2011-09-15In 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 6 - Richland County, SC
Release Date: 2011-12-08At 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 7 - St. Clair County, IL
Release Date: 2011-12-15A prison in St. Clair, Ill., is visited by teens who are threatened by screaming inmates
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Episode 8 - San Bernardino County, CA - Girls
Release Date: 2011-12-22Teen 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 9 - Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA
Release Date: 2011-12-29Siblings visit the Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Virginia.
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Episode 10 - Queen Anne's County, MD
Release Date: 2012-01-05At 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 11 - Oakland County, MI - Girls
Release Date: 2012-01-12Outside Detroit, a teen trio of female troublemakers who call themselves The Three Musketeers, discover their bond is not tight enough to survive even a day in the Oakland County women's lockup. Courtney, Tia and Renee love to party, but when they are forced by inmates and deputies to scrub a jail cellblock and bathroom, the party is over. Meanwhile Taylor, a 16-year old thief, is swarmed by screaming female inmates who learn that she stole $2,000 from her grandparents, and one teen makes an unexpected friend behind bars.
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Episode 12 - Hampton Roads Regional Jail
Release Date: 2012-01-19In the third-season finale, a teenage pyromaniac visits Virginia's Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where his mom works as a deputy.