Beyond Scared Straight

In this episode, inmates at the Valley State Prison for Women try to keep five young girls from becoming convicts.

Five teens learn the harsh realities of prison life at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Jessup, where dozens of menacing inmates surround the kids and taunt them.

Hardened criminals at a California prison give teens a taste of life on the yard, where any prisoner can approach the kids and give them a feel for the dangers of prison life.

In this episode, six teens, some of whom have already served time in juvie, get a dose of grown-up prison life at the Lieber Correctional Facility in South Carolina.

Viewers go into one of the nation's most infamous prisons to see how four teens who have already been involved in crime react to experiencing prison life first-hand.

Maryland inmates give a group of five at-risk teens a taste of prison when they are forced to eat "Lock-up Loaf," a brick of baked mush served to unruly prisoners.

Five at-risk girls are subjected to a terrifying simulation of the degrading process of entering a female prison.