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. A&E‘s Beyond Scared Straight participant Ashley Tropez has died in what police say was an apparent homicide. She was 24. According ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1978 when I was 10 years old the first "Scared Straight" documentary was released. Narrated by Peter Falk, TV's "Columbo," the film followed the experience of "juvenile delinquents," teens we would ...