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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 - Western Tidewater, VA: Family Ties
Release Date: 2014-02-28In Virginia, chaos takes over and officers spring into action when aggressive sisters Quaja and Quona and their cousin Tay-Tay are told they will be staying in jail overnight.
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Episode 2 - Douglas County, GA: A Family's Loss
Release Date: 2014-03-07Following the jail tour, the streets sadly takes the life of of a teen trying to head down a better path.
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Episode 3 - Chester County, SC: Roundtree Circle
Release Date: 2014-03-14A 15-year-old's world shatters when he sees his tough older brother wearing prison garb; a stoner takes a second tour of jail; deputies put the pressure on a baby-faced bully and a 19-year-old thief.
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Episode 4 - St. Clair County, IL: Precious Time
Release Date: 2014-03-27A 19-year-old high-school sophomore breaks into home and hustles on the street; two teenage drug users join the residents of the St. Clair County Jail in Illinois.
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Episode 5 - Portsmouth County, VA: Without My Daddy
Release Date: 2014-04-03A 14-year-old girl and her younger half-sister act out violently in the slammer; two teenage brothers make different choices during their stint in a Virginia jail.
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Episode 6 - Oklahoma City, OK: Teen Father?
Release Date: 2014-04-10Two brothers and a sister on a rampage of crime and violence are separated after being admitted to an Oklahoma jail.
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Episode 7 - Dougherty County, GA: Song for Sandals
Release Date: 2014-04-17A 12-year-old genius learns he isn't as smart as he imagines after he enters Georgia's Dougherty County Jail.
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Episode 8 - Fulton County, Ga.: My Father the Inmate
Release Date: 2014-04-24A remorseless 17-year-old car thief finds his world crashing down when he learns his stepfather is in a Georgia jail.