In his new book, Bob Hatrak reflects on his time serving as the country's youngest warden of a maximum-security prison Courtesy of Hatrak Family; Villa Magna Publishing Bob Hatrak; Not on My Watch ...

The Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office is hosting its C.H.O.I.C.E program to help correct the youth's paths.

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 ...

The Summit County Sheriff's Office in Ohio arrested a man who tried to enter the county's courthouse while impersonating a peace officer. Christopher Hendon, 26, claimed to be working as part of a ...

The journalist known for his deep immersion into subcultures was promoting a new documentary in which he speaks about his experience with teen "scared straight" programs when he died by suicide. By ...

Eddie Murphy returned for another sketch in the SNL50 show, this time as one of three prisoners trying to try to scare a trio of young male shoplifters “straight.” The sketch was a spoof of the ...

When teenagers get into trouble, what should their parents do? A couple of months ago, a father wrote to Dear Abby with that very question. His 16-year-old daughter had become a "nightmare," he said, ...