Beyond Scared Straight is an American true-crime TV series. It follows troubled teenagers who spend one to three days in prison or jail to learn from the inmates about the realities of being ...

On your feet! Now sit down! Kenan Thompson is back behind bars on Saturday Night Live to scare straight some troubled teens — and he's bringing in some heavy hitters as reenforcement. Sunday's sketch ...

This film shows the Scared Straight program that has hardened convicts from maximum security prisons tell their stories about the truth about prison life in order to ...

Ashley Tropez has died. More than a decade after she appeared on A&E's Beyond Scared Straight, a reality show that aimed to help troubled youth turn their lives around, Tropez was found dead in an ...

Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch on the SNL50: The Anniversary Show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.” The sketch was a ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...