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Does anybody else watch this? It's a show where they take 5 or 6 teens (different state each ep) who are in with the wrong crowd or are getting in trouble at school or are breaking laws etc. and put them in a prison with real inmates and basically try and scare them from getting in trouble so they don't end up in prison when they're older. Their parents sign them up for the show. It's 100% safe, the inmates get told to try and intimidate the teens and scare them, and they're always accompanied by prison wardens, but they are basically put in a prison simulation/regime for the day.

Here's a clip from the show:

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Beyond Scared Straight™ produced by Arnold Shapiro, profiles the new approach to keeping today's teens from becoming tomorrow's prisoners. The power of the original Scared Straight! programme has inspired dozens of inmate-run intervention programmes in men's and women's prisons across the country. In many dramatic ways, these 21st Century programmes are very different, because today's youth need a different approach - a combination of confrontation, information and communication to try to reach these at-risk kids.

These youthful offender programs put boys and girls of all ethnicities and backgrounds, ranging in age from 11-18, into intensive one-day in-prison sessions that show them the realities of life behind bars.

Each one-hour episode focuses on a different inmate-run programme in the U.S., and follows four or five at-risk teens before they attend the programme, throughout their day inside the prison, immediately afterwards, and then follows up with them one-month later to see the lasting impact of the experience on their lives. Beyond Scared Straight is about transforming the lives of young people through intervention and second chances.
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