Carl Cannon wants to make things clear up front: He is not in the business of doing scared-straight programs. "This is different," Cannon, the founder of Elite Community Outreach, said before a Friday ...

Beyond Scared Straight is an American true-crime TV series. It follows troubled teenagers who spend one to three days in prison or jail to learn from the inmates about the realities of being ...

In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

A one-year-old Fairfax County juvenile diversion program called TAP, aimed at educating at-risk youth about the unpleasant realities of prison life, seems to be achieving some anecdotal success and is ...