2011
TV-14
43m

Summary Follows at-risk youths in prison intervention programs, revisiting them a month later to gauge program impact after confronting realities of incarceration. View more details

2011
TV-14
43m

Beyond Scared Straight

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Leanna Roderiguez Priscilla Cecilia

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Genres : Crime Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Jan 12, 2011

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Summary Follows at-risk youths in prison intervention programs, revisiting them a month later to gauge program impact after confronting realities of incarceration. View more details

Details

Genres : Crime Documentary Reality-TV

Release date : Jan 12, 2011

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

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Kristin Funke in Beyond Scared Straight (2011)

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Episode 1 • Jan 12, 2011

Chowchilla

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.

Episode 2 • Jan 19, 2011

Jessup

Five at-risk girls are subjected to a terrifying simulation of the degrading process of entering a female prison. Four friends, busted together for shoplifting, have a unique opportunity to jointly discover the horror of prison life. The prison tour reaches its greatest emotional impact when teens open up to the inmates, causing one girl to reveal a tragic secret.

Episode 3 • Jan 26, 2011

Corcoran

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. The teens include Stephen, 16, a violent youth who threatens his teachers; Josh and Armando, 16, twin brothers and gang members; Elijha, 15, a car thief; and Abraham, 16, who thinks that going to jail is no big deal.

Episode 4 • Feb 02, 2011

Lieber

In this episode six teens, some of whom have already served time in Juvenile Hall, get a dose of grown-up prison life at the Lieber Correctional Facility in South Carolina. The inmate-run "Operation Behind Bars" program puts the teens in tiny cells and introduces them to "Lock-Up," the prison within a prison for the worst inmates. The most shocking moments come when the prison's murderers and thieves tell the kids their personal stories.

Episode 5 • Feb 09, 2011

San Quentin

Viewers go into one of the nation's most infamous prisons to see how four teens who have already been involved in crime react to experiencing prison life first-hand. They stand outside Death Row, experience the taunts of prisoners in overcrowded cells, and hear the inmates tell them that fear is everywhere in the prison, and violence is around every corner.

Episode 6 • Feb 23, 2011

Hagerstown

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. The teens include, Shane, 17, a violent youth who is surprised he hasn't killed anyone, Garrett, 13, who has been kicked out of eight schools already, Brandy, 16, who skips school to smoke pot, her brother Shawn, 15, who protects Brandy at any cost and Richard, 18, a towering jock who drinks, blacks out and awakens bloodied from brawling.

Episode 7 • Mar 02, 2011

Jessup Women's Prison, MD

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