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  San Quentin

  Air Date: 2/10/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 44:13

  

  Hagerstown

  Air Date: 2/24/2011

• BONUS SCENE | 1:41

  

  Shivs and Shanks

• BONUS SCENE | 1:56

  

  Closed Circuit Visitation

• BONUS SCENE | 2:02

  

  Life in the Box

• BONUS SCENE | 1:14

  

  Color Coded Criminals

• BONUS SCENE | 1:25

  

  Mothers Behind Bars

• BONUS SCENE | 1:57

  

  The Jail Kitchen

• BONUS SCENE | 1:38

  

  My Son, the Inmate

• BONUS SCENE | 1:35

  

  Inmate Food

• BONUS SCENE | 2:01

  

  Oklahoma County Gangs

A&E's hit series BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT, which premiered as the highest-rated original series launch in the network's history, returns for a new season. The series, inspired by "SCARED STRAIGHT!," the Academy Award® & multiple-Emmy®-winning documentary film by Arnold Shapiro, profiles dramatic prison and jail deterrence programs aimed at keeping today's at-risk teens from becoming tomorrow's prisoners

Each one-hour episode focuses on a different existing "behind bars" program in the U.S. and follows four or five at-risk teens - before they attend the program, throughout their day behind bars, immediately afterwards - and then following up with them one-month later to see the lasting impact of the experience on their lives. A combination of confrontation, information and communication, these youthful offender programs put boys and girls of all ethnicities, ranging in age from 11-19, into intensive one-day "incarceration" sessions that show them the realities of life behind bars.

This season, viewers will see things never seen before in this series: teens are kept in cells all night in a unique overnight program; a teen is thrown out for defiant, combative behavior; inmates are tasered and extracted from cells; and more.

BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT is about transforming the lives of young people through hope and second-chances.