NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Suffolk County, MA - 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.
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#2 - San Bernardino, CA: Hold on Turbo
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 7/10/2014
A 14-year-old from San Bernardino, Calif., who hangs out with hang members spends a memorable day behind bars.
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#3 - Douglas, Ga.: Concrete & Steel
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 7/30/2015
No description available
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#4 - Lights Out!
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 8/27/2015
No description available
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#5 - Lights Out!
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 9/3/2015
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- 4.4/107 votesLoading...
#6 - San Bernardino County Jail, CA - Parents and Sons
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/2012
Authorities hope a tour of prison will knock some much-needed sense into some troublesome teens from Southern California's San Bernardino County.
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- 4.8/107 votesLoading...
#7 - Chester, S.C.: The Harder They Fall
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 12/18/2014
A 16-year-old South Carolina rapper challenges the power of prison deputies, who then team up to teach the disrespectful teen a new tune.
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- 4.8/108 votesLoading...
#8 - Chester, S.C.: Cornflake, Sandbag & Frozen
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 7/16/2015
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- 4.9/109 votesLoading...
#9 - Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/2013
A promiscuous teenage troublemaker shares a cell with a relative in Virginia's Western Tidewater Regional Jail, only to learn that family bonds aren't strengthened behind bars.
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- 5.0/109 votesLoading...
#10 - Chester County, SC: 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.
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- 5.2/107 votesLoading...
#11 - Fulton County Jail, GA
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2012
A young drug dealer, a child model and twin bullies enter a Georgia jail for a personal experience of the criminal-justice system.
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- 5.2/107 votesLoading...
#12 - Portsmouth County, VA: Without My Daddy
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 4/3/2014
A 14-year-old girl and her younger half-sister act out violently in the slammer; two teenage brothers make different choices during their stint in a Virginia jail.
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- 5.2/107 votesLoading...
#13 - Western Tidewater, VA: Mother and Child Reunion
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 12/11/2014
A 14-year-old girl visits a prison in Virginia, where her mother is incarcerated.
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- 5.4/109 votesLoading...
#14 - San Bernardino County, CA - Girls
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/2011
Teen girls visit a prison in San Bernardino County, Cal., where one of the teens gets into a confrontation that turns physical.
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- 5.4/1010 votesLoading...
#15 - 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.
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- 5.4/107 votesLoading...
#16 - St. Clair County, IL: Bunk and 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.
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- 5.5/108 votesLoading...
#17 - Lake County Detention Center, FL
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2012
Swampland troublemakers who receive an attitude adjustment include a 17-year-old who uses her looks to her advantage and a young thug who meets a family member behind bars.
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- 5.5/108 votesLoading...
#18 - St. Clair, Ill.: Lexi's Lockup Lash-Out
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 8/20/2015
When a spoiled, 15-year-old gang member is confronted by a swarm of angry inmates in jail, she fights back physically.
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- 5.6/109 votesLoading...
#19 - San Bernadino County, CA - Boys
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.
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- 5.6/1011 votesLoading...
#20 - Oakland County, MI - Girls
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2012
Outside Detroit, a teen trio of female troublemakers who call themselves The Three Musketeers, discover their bond is not tight enough to survive even a day in the Oakland County women's lockup. Courtney, Tia and Renee love to party, but when they are forced by inmates and deputies to scrub a jail cellblock and bathroom, the party is over. Meanwhile Taylor, a 16-year old thief, is swarmed by screaming female inmates who learn that she stole $2,000 from her grandparents, and one teen makes an unexpected friend behind bars.
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- 5.6/109 votesLoading...
#21 - Hudson County Correctional Center, NJ
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2012
No description available
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- 5.7/109 votesLoading...
#22 - Hampton Roads, Va.: Girls Fight Back
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/25/2013
Four troubled youngsters with bad attitudes take a trip to jail, only to learn their street reputations make them targets on the inside.
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- 5.8/1010 votesLoading...
#23 - 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.
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- 5.8/1012 votesLoading...
#24 - St. Clair County, IL
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/15/2011
A prison in St. Clair, Ill., is visited by teens who are threatened by screaming inmates
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- 5.8/1010 votesLoading...
#25 - Western Tidewater Regional Jail, VA
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/29/2011
Siblings visit the Western Tidewater Regional Jail in Virginia.
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The Worst Episodes of Beyond Scared Straight
Every episode of Beyond Scared Straight ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Beyond Scared Straight!
Observing programs for troubled teens in which inmates reveal the realities of prison life in the hope of deterring them from a life of crime.
Genres:RealityDocumentaryCrime
Network:A&E
Worst Episodes Summary
"Suffolk County, MA - Boys" is the worst rated episode of "Beyond Scared Straight". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/31/2013. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "San Bernardino, CA: Hold on Turbo".