The BEST episodes of Beyond Scared Straight

#1 - Follow-Up Special

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/7/2013

Teens featured in earlier episodes of the series are revisited to see if their jailhouse experiences had any meaningful impact on their lives.

#2 - San Bernardino, CA

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2012

Authorities hope a tour of prison will knock some much-needed sense into some troublesome teens from Southern California's San Bernardino County.

#3 - Hudson County, NJ

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2012

#4 - Fulton County, Ga.: Blood Orange

Season 7 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/2014

A 13-year-old arsonist schemes to assault members of a rival gang, but his criminal plans change after he squeals on a larcenous convict.

#5 - Oakland County, MI

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/25/2011

Oakland County, Michigan is a stone's throw from Detroit's infamous 8-Mile and the streets here are just as tough - but the deputies and inmates who run Oakland County Jail's "Turn-Around" program are even tougher.

#6 - Oakland County, Mich

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/11/2013

A large 14-year-old who attacks his adoptive parents meets the hardened inmates and officers of a Michigan jail.

#7 - St. Clair County, Ill: Precious Time

Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/27/2014

A 19-year-old high-school sophomore breaks into home and hustles on the street; two teenage drug users join the residents of the St. Clair County Jail in Illinois.

#8 - Hampton Roads, Va.: Girls Fight Back

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/1/2013

Four troubled youngsters with bad attitudes take a trip to jail, only to learn their street reputations make them targets on the inside.

#9 - Hampton Roads Regional Jail

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/19/2012

In the third-season finale, a teenage pyromaniac visits Virginia's Hampton Roads Regional Jail, where his mom works as a deputy.

#10 - Portsmouth County, VA

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/1/2011

The at-risk teens of Portsmouth County, Virginia aren't afraid to fight back when confronted with a loud cellblock at Portsmouth County Jail. For one teen, a day is not enough and he is shocked when deputies show up at his home and return him to the

#11 - Oklahoma City, Okla

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/2013

Hardened criminals in the Oklahoma County Detention Center teach a spoiled drama queen a valuable lesson.

#12 - Suffolk County, Mass.: Boys

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/31/2013

New visitors to the clink include a light-fingered football prodigy, a pot-smoking teen from the suburbs, and an aspiring rap star who thinks that hard time will improve his rhymes.

#13 - Charlotte County, Fla.

Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2013

A teenage football star's drug use and violent ways threaten his dreams of a career in law enforcement; a police officer's son believes that he is above the law; a hulking teen troublemaker meets his match.

#14 - Western Tidewater Regional Jail, Va: Big and Bad

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/13/2013

A 14-year-old street brawler's defiant attitude surprises the deputies at a Virginia jail.

#15 - Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/2011

Siblings visit the Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Virginia.

#16 - San Bernadino County, CA

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/15/2011

In the second-season finale, San Bernardino County Jail in California is visited by four teens who are also taken to the morgue to witness the consequences of gang violence.

#17 - Oklahoma County, Okla

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/8/2011

Teens in Oklahoma are being pulled into the gang lifestyle.

#18 - Jacksonville, FL (Boys)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/27/2012

In Jacksonville, Florida, four at-risk teens attend a three-part "scared straight" tour. Towering over nearly everyone, KeShawn, 15, is intimidated by no one. But when KeShawn witnesses his pint-sized little brother, Kevon, suffering the terrifying consequences of trying to imitate his big bro, KeShawn breaks down, and gets a glimpse of what the future holds for both of them. Also, Johnny, a white, self-proclaimed racist, endures the wrath of the black inmate population.

#19 - Queen Anne's County, MD

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2012

At the Queen Anne's County Jail "Reset" program in Maryland, six at-risk teens endure a four-day intervention program depicting the terrors of jail, a drunk driving fatality in a hospital trauma center and a glimpse of their own funeral. Eighteen year-old partiers Daria and Christopher, who are girlfriend and boyfriend, will find their relationship tested when they are forced to testify against each other in court.

#20 - St. Clair, IL

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2012

The Return of "Ice Mike" Troubled teens that attend the St. Clair County Jail diversion program take a lie detector test that reveals some shocking secrets. Inmates "Ice Mike" and "Hustle Man" return (from last season) to confront a BMX-riding stoner, a fearless gangster, a terrorizing bully, and Summer--a promiscuous under age girl who just doesn t say no to older boys--and her paralyzed mom can't stop her. Summer experiences the humiliation of jailhouse make-up and the surprising reaction Ice Mike has to her shameful behavior. Summer freaks out when she sees an inmate strapped into a restraint chair, and going wild. Pot-smoking Austin, 15, discovers an inmate who dipped his hands into boiling oil while high on drugs. Jeremy, 17, is tormented by inmates when they learn he assaulted his grandmother. An entire cell block descends on the four teens--and they have nowhere to hide.

#21 - Floyd County Jail, Ga: Deputy Lyle Returns

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/6/2013

A colorful deputy attempts to change the lives of four teenage troublemakers spending time at his Georgia jail.

#22 - St. Clair County, Ill.

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2013

Ferocious killer Hustle Man attacks an at-risk teen who refuses to comb another prison inmate's chest hair.

#23 - Oklahoma County, Okla.: Teen Father?

Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/10/2014

Two brothers and a sister on a rampage of crime and violence are separated after being admitted to an Oklahoma jail.

#24 - St. Clair County, Ill: Bunk & Junk

Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/26/2014

A stint in jail tests the loyalty of two close-knit sisters; a teenage thief follows in the footsteps of his younger brother.

#25 - Chester County, S.C.: Girls

Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/3/2014

A larcenous teen uses a Taser on her enemies; cameras capture a young brawler's humiliating defeat; a loudmouth threatens to kill her teacher; a spoiled brat shoplifts and plays hooky.