Seasons & episodes

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

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.

A young drug dealer, a child model and twin bullies enter a Georgia jail for a personal experience of the criminal-justice system.

A visiting teenage drug dealer fearlessly takes on the taunting residents of a Virginia jail; inmate Nasty Nard greets the newcomers with aggression.

A Texas mother sends her three troublesome daughters to an overnight jail program in Richland County, South Carolina.

A teen visitor to the Oneida County Correctional Facility in central New York takes a seat in a restraint chair, while another young hoodlum gets handcuffed before he even enters the joint.

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

A man suffering from cancer hopes that a stint in Georgia's Floyd County Jail will teach his angry teenage son an important lesson.

Inmates at the Portsmouth County Jail lay some hard truths on a would-be rap star; pugnacious siblings are confronted with difficult choices; officers threaten to extend a disrespectful teen's visit.

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.

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.

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

Four troubled girls get a true taste of prison life during a stay at the Oneida County Correctional Facility.

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

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

A 12-year-old girl is reduced to tears during a frightening stay in Florida's Lake County Detention Center.

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

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

Two defiant teenage sisters foolishly believe they can survive in jail; a car-stealing bully discovers jail is full of bigger, tougher individuals than himself.

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

During a physically exhausting all-night jail stay in Richland County, SC, Aaron, 12, a habitual liar, confounds deputies by excelling at every exercise--despite having a broken arm.

A stoner gets violent when inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., sully his girlfriend's honor; a 14-year-old "chick magnet" draws unwanted comparisons to a teen idol.

A once-violent, now submissive inmate hopes to make a difference in the lives of the new young offenders in his facility.

A young Oklahoma offender tries to escape during a jail visit; preteen toughs are forced to display their loyalty to their respective rival gangs; a teen arsonist gets burned by his actions.