Beyond Scared Straight |

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• FULL EPISODE | 43:16

  

  Oklahoma County, OK

  Airdate: 09/07/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 44:15

  

  Portsmouth County, VA

  Airdate: 09/01/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 42:11

  

  Oakland County, MI

  Airdate: 08/25/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 44:10

  

  Mecklenburg County, NC

  Airdate: 08/18/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 42:59

  

  Jessup Women's Prison

  Airdate: 03/03/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 42:48

  

  Hagerstown

  Airdate: 02/24/2011

• FULL EPISODE | 44:13

  

  San Quentin

  Airdate: 02/10/2011

• BONUS SCENE | 3:09

  

  Follow-Up Bonus Update: Sheriff Justus

• BONUS SCENE | 2:19

  

  Follow-Up Bonus Update: Mariah

• BONUS SCENE | 2:43

  

  Follow-Up Bonus Update: Garret

• BONUS SCENE | 3:05

  

  Trash Talking

• BONUS SCENE | 3:14

  

  A Family in Rome

• BONUS SCENE | 2:47

  

  Getting Out, Moving Up

• BONUS SCENE | 3:01

  

  All Night Long

• BONUS SCENE | 2:45

  

  Why Inmates Do What They Do

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 fourth 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, and drugs to promiscuity, gambling and gang affiliations. They are forced to spend a day (and sometimes a night) in jail, be confronted by convicted felons and experience the harsh reality of life behind bars.

Season 4 Highlights Include:

-In Georgia, returning audience favorite Deputy Jonathan Lyle takes on a "buckwild" partying runaway, a drug-dealing Jekyll-Hyde and a young teen who threatened his pregnant mother with a knife.

-Returning inmate "Hustle Man", a ferocious incarcerated killer, is dragged away from the teens after he tries to attack.

-12-year-old petty thief Alissa sobs uncontrollably at the sights and sounds of jail life, but, more shocking, her fourteen-year-old brother, himself having committed armed burglary and grand theft, refuses to comfort her amid the chaos.

-An explosive giant, Joseph, assaults his little brother and his adoptive parents until he comes face-to-face with menacing convicts and deputies.

-Maura, a privileged suburban shopaholic who steals just for the thrill, experiences the gritty consequences of her crimes.

-Cody sports tattoos indicating affiliation even though he doesn't claim a set--a dangerous circumstance on both sides of the bars, especially since he fears gang retribution for getting into a fight with a gang member at school.

-A beautiful cheerleader, Kristin seems set on following her mother's criminal past by running the streets, stealing and using drugs.

-Aaron, a feisty habitual liar, initially confounds deputies by easily overcoming physical challenge during an exhausting all-night jail stay (returning fan favorite Richland County, SC) until deputies set their sights on getting inside his mind.