Beyond Scared Straight

Four troubled girls learn that the trauma they put their mothers through at home is nothing compared to the terror of life behind bars at the Oneida County Jail in New York.

At Floyd County Jail in Georgia, colorful Deputy Lyle returns to change the lives of four troubled teens, though he may have finally met his match in one teen who threatens to put Lyle in his place.

Deputies at Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Virginia have never seen the level of defiance they get from Tysharaw, a 14-year old street brawler.

At Florida's Lake County Detention Center, 12-year old Alissa is reduced to frightened tears, and even the inmates are shocked when her older brother refuses to offer any comfort.

Ferocious killer and inmate Hustle Man is dragged from a teen talk when he attacks an at-risk kid who refuses to comb another inmate's chest hair.

At Douglas County Jail in Georgia, two sisters defy both inmates and deputies but once their mother has an emotional breakdown, their eyes are opened to the pain they have caused.

At Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Virginia, four teens think that the reputations they've built for themselves on the streets will protect them from an inmate onslaught behind bars. One teen is targeted by gang members and changing his ways may be the only thing to save his life.

During a physically exhausting all-night jail stay in Richland County, SC, Aaron, 12, a habitual liar, confounds deputies by excelling at every exercise--despite having a broken arm.

Alex, a 17-year-old stoner, tries to defend his girlfriend's honor against a cellblock full of snarling, tattooed inmates at Albuquerque's Metropolitan Detention Center.

For the first time, a violent teen featured on a previous "Beyond Scared Straight" episode is now a submissive inmate hoping to change the lives of a new group of teens in Floyd County, GA.

Fifteen-year-old fighter Steven becomes enraged and tries to run from officers to escape the harsh realities of Oklahoma County Jail.

In Queen Anne's County, Maryland, troubled teens visit a jail, a funeral home and an emergency room, leading to a deadly encounter.

At Fulton County Jail in Georgia, a visit to the "alternative lifestyle" unit shows four at-risk teens that being different makes you an even bigger target in jail. One brother squeals on his younger sibling, leading one of them to be taken away in cuffs.

Football player Austin, 17, wants to join the SWAT team after graduation, but drugs and fighting are leading him straight to "the longest yard." Sixteen-year-old Logan assumes that as the son of a cop, he will never end up in jail, regardless of his at-risk behavior. At 6'1" and 230 pounds, Robert, 14, has been arrested four times for battery but meets his match in an officer twice his size. Sabrina, 14, who is failing the 8th grade, faces an aggressive inmate who threatens the same violent treatment Sabrina has dealt her own mother.

At St. Clair County Jail in Illinois, a troubled teen disappears into a crush of angry inmates as deputies and his loyal, street-tough brother try to figure out where he has gone.

Chavez, 15, an explosive fighter and thief, taunts Georgia deputies and inmates by wearing a homemade t-shirt that mocks efforts to scare him straight. "Blue", 12, a pint-sized stoner, stayed out long after curfew and was kicked out of school for carrying weed. His big brother "Nard", 13, leading him astray, boasts that he hit a boy in the face with a brick. In jail, three threatening inmates surround Shafique, 14, a serial shoplifter, as he cowers in a jail cell bunk with nowhere to run.