A&E's Emmy®-nominated series "Beyond Scared Straight," following derailed, defiant and disrespectful teens as they enter immersive jail programs aimed at deterring them from a life of crime, returns for a sixth season.

Inspired by "Scared Straight!," the Academy Award® and multiple Emmy®-winning documentary film by Arnold Shapiro, "Beyond Scared Straight" follows at-risk teens who have been in trouble for everything from fighting, theft, drugs to promiscuity, gambling and gang affiliations. They are forced to spend a day (and sometimes a night) in jail, interact with convicted felons and experience the harsh reality of life behind bars.

This season on "Beyond Scared Straight," a teen fighter makes a run for it only to be thrown into a cell with the imposing inmate she was trying to escape; a gang-banger is stunned to meet his own incarcerated brother during the jail tour; a teen starts heading down the right path only to meet a tragic end; and a promiscuous, drug-using teenage boy reveals to an officer that parenthood may be looming.

Season Six Highlights

A teen fighter makes a run for it only to be thrown into a cell with the imposing inmate she was trying to escape.

We meet a teen trying to head down the right path but whose life is tragically cut short.

A die-hard teen Crip is challenged by a veteran Blood and then grilled by a dubious Crip skeptical of his true colors.

A gang-banger is stunned to meet with his own incarcerated older brother during the tour.

A housing pod is so out-of-control that an inmate douses a teen with what appears to be urine.

A twelve-year-old with anger issues faces a group of inmates who force him to do something terrifying and against jail rules right under the nose of the sheriff.

A promiscuous, drug-using teen reveals to an officer that parenthood may be looming.

Our cameras capture the chance meeting of a teen car thief and his estranged stepfather in a poignant jailhouse reunion.

An inmate literally lifts a teen off the ground by the shirt in retribution for the teen laying hands on his own mother.