The Beyond Scared Straight community is mourning the loss of an alum. Ashley Tropez, who appeared on the popular A&E show, has passed away at the age of 24. On Aug. 26, Victorville Police Department ...

Most of the kids who drank, who smoked weed, who had sex at 13 looked scared. In the what-they’re-doing-now montage at the end of “Beyond Scared Straight” – the A&E television series about kids who ...

NEW YORK -- ''Scared Straight! 20 Years Later'' does several things rather nicely -- although ''nice'' won't be the word that springs to viewers' minds. The program forcefully restates what's even ...

More than 30 years after the original "Scared Straight!" won both an Oscar and Emmy, producer Arnold Shapiro has revived his documentary as an A&E series. More than 30 years after the original “Scared ...

Beyond Scared Straight Season 4 is an American reality TV series, that was first officially aired on A&E. This season continues its gripping exploration of juvenile crime prevention programs in ...

Family Court often receives calls from parents who want the court to take their child on a “scared straight” tour of the local detention center. These parents are looking for a quick fix for their ...

CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. -- Sheriff's deputies pushed them against jail-yard fences and shoved them to the ground. They yelled and cursed within inches of their faces. They forced them to run for long ...

Recently, a young woman explained her reasoning to me for converting to the Christian faith. “It’s real simple,” she said. I realized that hell is real and if I didn’t ask Jesus into my life, I’d burn ...

A sequel to a sequel to a sequel that began 33 years ago with Arnold Shapiro's Academy Award-winning documentary, "Scared Straight!" That featured the inmate program at Rahway (now East Jersey) State, ...

Ashley Tropez, star of Beyond Scared Straight, has died at the age of 24. She came to fame at the age of 17 when she took part in the A&E show, which focused on troubled youngsters. A police release ...

Misguided, abusive and potentially harmful. That’s how six experts characterized a program in Chester County, S.C., that is designed to scare at-risk youths into better behavior. A Rock Hill Herald ...

In 1978, the United States Supreme Court ruled that George Carlin's standup routine "Filthy Words" was "indecent but not obscene" (they didn't say anything about funny) and upheld the FCC's right to ...