Man, when I worked at the local jail, some kids would come in every now and again for some off brand scared straight. The inmates would get so excited to scare the kids. They’d act insane the entire time the kids walked around outside the sections. When they left the inmates would all high five and go back to talking on the phones and playing cards. It was always hilarious.
@@ThePanMan11 Therapy doesn't fix everything...... Plus showing kids what's its like in prison, is actually a good wake up call. It shows kids what's its really like in the real world, and gives them the chance to change for the better.. (My opinion)
@@why6280 I've lived in America and I know first hand how dog crap your mental health care is. You can't say therapy doesn't fix everything when you've never given it an actual shot. More than half of these kids probably have some undiagnosed and untreated condition. Scaring people straight does not work. If it did then people who actually get sent to jail would not get sent there a second time. Instead your recidivism is through the roof.
Ironically enough, all the prisoners who appear on the show are able to do so because they’ve been having good behaviour, most of what they do to those kids is an act, modelled after the “worse inmates”
i mean, of course they are.... imagine the producers would put the kids together with actual unpredictable psychopaths.. it would be a recipe for disaster and for a bunch of dead kids 😝 and i'm astonished by how many of these kids don't seem to realize that but a lot of the adult viewers don't seem to realize it either so i'm again surprised by my misplaced faith in humans' capacity for logic 😂
@@stefanforrer2573 I prefer them to do that. Seriously, someone should do that off camera. But record it and years later got the kids to tell did it change them or not. It would be interesting to watch the reaction.
I went to high school with two kids who were put on Beyond Scared Straight. I remember everyone in school being surprised they were even on the show to begin with because they were not as tough as they claimed to be 😂
Lol we had the like girl’s 16th birthday show at our school and she wasn’t even rich... or popular. Nobody knew who she was, was a weird Iranian girl nobody knew.
These prisoners are looking for brownie points. They won't do anything. In fact... Being scared of them makes no sense. They're just little kids with big mouths and no brains.
Oh yes. This show. Love that they would "scare" the kids straight and then the kids go back home to the parents (and the environment) that made them that way. This show should have made the parents go to a parenting class while the kids were gone. Parents need to change too, they can't just keep hitting their kids and threating them to be better people. You need to lead by example. These kids don't have anyone to look up to.
@@KrayZky So how exactly can a single parent working possibly 2+ jobs have time to parent. Especially if the other parent is a deadbeat who wants nothing to do with the kid. Or a parent died,
Beyond scared straight is something my criminal justice professors would talk about all the time because of how ineffective it was. It did not deter those kids from continuing their bad actions whatsoever.
There was a similar thing in the uk which ended up actually being successful because they helped the kids too instead of trying to scare them. The show was about British kids going to an American jail and basically living there for a week. In the last episode they showed the kids are doing well now.
Remember the kid that they said "you wanna come in here?" And he said "I can't" and they said "WHY??" and he said something like the guard didn't open the door far enough, straight-faced 💀💀💀
@@Sigma2HisAlpha Not necessarily a fool. The inmates selected are no risk and looking to score brownie points by participating, not extra time. As a child they can not consent so even if they signed anything, if anything happens they absolutely can press charges and sue the prison, show, and anyone else involved. Arguably the entire thing is child abuse, so they'd likely have a case regardless, and the worse they have been treated, the more likely to win and the bigger the payout. The only people who should have any concern in a conflict situation are the guards and the producers...they are trusting inmates not to cross a pre-defined line. I'd 100% call their bluff.
"Michael Jackson's ghost is looking at me right now!" That legitimately creeped me out too. Thank you both for the constant laughs and useful information 😂
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At least you didn’t move to Australia right when they started putting people in covid camps for not being vaccinated and taking peoples houses and children.
My first job when I was 18 was actually working in a class A high security womens prison in the UK. It was super weird going from being in school and having to call all the teachers sir to all these prisoners calling me sir. Most were just bored and wanted to chat. The two scariest parts were the drug addicts as they seemed like they’d lost their souls, the drugs just scouped it out, and the murderers because they seemed so normal. You always think a murderer will just seem creepy or scary, but nope, these women seemed totally normal, which is frightening. I got out of there within a year and decided to work in a hospital for the NHS to help people instead.
@@HarveyTalksPrison lowered the age of what? For people to work there? You had to be 23 to work in a prison in the US before? I think its 18 in the UK because of basic labour laws and needing to sign the official secrets act as certain aspects of how a prison operates is considered governmental secrets.
So, I have a story. When I was a kid we went on a field trip to our local jail/prison. How normal that is, I don't know. The girls went to the women's block and the boys to the men's. Naturally we were taken to the low risk areas. I have no idea why, but one of the female inmates specifically paid attention to me saying stuff along the lines of how sweet I am and how I'd be someone's bitch if I went to prison. She was handsy too. I was scared out of my wits. I was somewhere between grades 4 and 6. I didn't know much about much, but that sure as hell made me never want to go to prison.
@@shoshitaketakeyani3275 Hey! Thanks so much for your concern 😊 I don't think about it a lot at all. I just remembered the event as I watched this. I can't say for sure if this experience gave me trauma, but I have always been a super goody two shoes, so maybe it did that 🙈
During my - I think - junior year of high school I took a Practical Justice class and we took a field trip to a jail to learn about the system, but we didn't interact with any inmates. Just the security and administrative people. We did have a couple "tough guys" who wanted to get tazed. They were over 18 and it was the joy of my week to see them fall to the ground. Regardless, I could never imagine anyone under highschool age going to an active jail for a field trip.
On a former job, I took a group of teens for an "adult" jail tour at county. It was a leadership development program so these weren't at- risk teens but the volunteer leaders thought it was a good idea for kids to understand how futures can go wrong. They had been to the juvenile facility in the past and parents weren't aware for certain crimes, the state could request trial as adult in a teen at a certain age. (I studied a little law in college. ) We had the couple of usual calm in- mates let the kids ask them questions to understand how they got into their situations better. During the tour, one in- mate decided to moon the group. Thankfully, the chaperones and I managed to get hands over eyes before too much damage was done. I saw a CO run toward the cell and I heard his cell mate yell, "You dumb@$$! Now we both are going to lose privildges!" and the distinct should of a punch. The kids rated that trip as one of the best.
I went to a scared straight program because I didn’t want to do dishes. 😂 This still goes on regardless of the show. You literally do not have to do any crime but tell your parent no and you will get accepted in the program.
the parents did have to sign waivers and stuff and a lot of kids ran into their family who were locked up. It was mainly moms but that definitely got through to them, seeing their parent locked up and begging them to change their ways and to not end up like them. Also the guy with the sucker was trying to show her how her life was gonna end up if she kept dating adult guys. That she would be forced to do things she didn't want to do. A different guy did the same thing to another girl on a different episode except he used fun dip instead of a sucker.
Yeah it’s a pretty interesting show! I viewed it also like if she ends up there it’s just a preview of everyone there making her their “bitch”. They all think they’re so tough and they’ve only been on this earth for 12-17 years they ain’t seen shiiieeetttt
U do realize abuse I likely why these kids ended up" bad" and more abuse isn't going to fix that it's going to make it worse defending this show is foul
@@nlellison99 ig I never really thought about it like that. I haven’t watched all the episodes and I know that a lot of them probably do have a bunch of issues at home that need resolved. I wasn’t trying to defend the show tho…I was just stating things I knew about it.
It always bothered me that on their name tags they put things like "anger issues" or "disrespectful" down. Neither of those are crimes, and it's weird to me that parents would rather scar their children in a jail then take them to therapy.
Its to prove a point. Since they 100% can't anticipate what an inmate can do they put the stuff they do outside a crime. Also if someone wasn't convicted of a crime putting hee crime they did would be against the law
@@Truecrimeresearcher224i think OP meant when they’re showing whatever the kid did to get put in the program. some of their taglines had stuff like “talking back” and “disrespect” and stuff, which isn’t a crime and something the parent should be handling
The predominant demographic of the kids on this show routinely don’t get the benefit or even the consideration of their behavior being seen as kids acting out or being rooted in trauma.
My mom constantly threatened to send me to beyond straight... even though the worst thing I've done was literally run away because I was told I couldn't eat dinner lol.
@@YouKnowMeDuh lol of course! Once I turned 16 I left the house and I have been thriving ever since. I feel bad for these kids in these shows. Some of them just have bad home lifes and act out. Instead of getting them help, they just tried to 'scare' them into behaving, which we all know by know does the exact opposite. Kids act out cause something isn't right, at least in my experience.
Thing is, I love this show just for the comedy value, but the reality is that the scared straight program doesn't actually work. There's studies and research to prove that going through this program does almost nothing for most of these kids. A lot of them just end up going back to their bad behavior and end up locked in prison themselves. There's an actual episode that shows a kid who has that exact thing happen to them. The real issue is that instead of scaring the kids, they should be helping them by trying to figure out what the source of the behavior is, and getting them professional help and even therapy. But that approach is more expensive, time consuming, and not as funny. So they just scare the hell out of the kids and pretend that it works.
Dude I'm 36 now and when I was 16 I went through one of these programs while I was on probation after I already got arrested. They did all this plus like a small boot camp. I just had a bad attitude and got into a fight and got removed. I didn't see it helping any of us. I was just convinced I could make it in prison after. And had to learn the hard way when I was 19 and really go to jail, then prison. I just hate how dumb I was .
If anyone is wondering most of the inmates that are on scared straight are the 'high functioning' inmates. generally they are the ones that are smarter and repentant of what they have done. Most of them are the ones on good behavior and things like that. Still scary dudes for sure but generally they are the 'good' inmates if that makes sense. They are told to be really mean to the kids and sound really crazy and act out in the jail on purpose. Its not far from what actually happens in jail but its, in a way, staged.
It's over the top. Like people ain't gonna be screaming in your face the whole time in jail. The program wants to make the kids think that jail will be the same experience they go through like the program but every single day but it's not..
@@skettlez9732 yeah but theres more of an existential fear and sense of hopelessness in prison that you cant show a kid in like 2 days. but you are right
to be fair, if you get dragged to prison in front of a camera team and they put on a show just for you, I can see how some might struggle to take it serious
I think another issue is that the kids know the inmates aren't allowed to hurt them, thus why they act all big and bad. However if they saw somebody or got attacked then they would probably take it more seriously. But even then scaring people doesn't change what they do
yeah was thinking the same, dont think not being scared means theyre dumb, they just know the situation is fabricated and are trolling, the pink shirt kid literally put on the pink shirt to troll lol
Youre also put infront of the most spineless "good boy" prisoners they could find. They yell at the kids for "acting tough" meanwhile half the kids are probably tougher than them lmfao
The kids on the show might have been troubled teens and whatnot, but the show was canceled because it was revealed all the kids, guards, and inmates were going off a script and everyone knew what was going to happen whenever they walked in. They chose the least aggressive inmates to act more tough and hard. They also made the kids follow a script that made them seem worse than they actually were, or more dumb than they were. But even if it wasn't scripted, if you sent your troubled child to something like this without trying to take them to therapy or something first, then it's you to blame if it doesn't work. Exposing your child who most likely has some kind of mental trauma to have made them act that way to begin with to "real" bullying and violence is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard if you expect it to change them.
You will never understand jail unless you really feel the hopelessness of never seeing your family again. My mom was sick, and I was arrested for punching a man in the face as he tryed to steal our car. They never gave him any charges but he filed them on me.... great system!
The thing is, in basically everywhere, the sentence for first degree murder is life in prison or the death penalty. In non-death penalty states, they are sentenced to life with no chance of parole so some of them turn out to not care what they do in prison including additional crimes.
I mean, would you? If you knew you were never getting out of prison, nor no matter what you did (good deed wise), you were never having a chance of stepping into freedom EVER AGAIN, would you care if you committed crimes in prison?
@@daniellehayes3798 I think I would try to make my life enjoyable inside, gain privilidges like TV or whatever. otherwise if I had anger yeah I'd have no reason NOT to except not wanting enemies/difficulties inside. If it was me when I was in a bad way in life, when I was committing crimes, then I probably would be hurting/angry too much to care but me now? I would want to make a chill life in there best I could ig. Offer things to other inmates like playing therapist/helping with writing up plea deals etc. Put schooling to use as an asset or whatever lol
Ehh that’s not always the case. Even when you are sentenced to life, you can gain certain privileges with good behavior. I believe the inmates that they use for this show are typically those who have been on good behavior and cooperating with that program probably earns them more privileges.
Somewhere (I don't remember where) there was a prison and the walls were painted in soft pink colors. It had a calming effects on the prisoners and less fights broke out. I love color psychology.
Baker-Miller Pink, also known as P-618, Schauss pink, or Drunk-Tank Pink is a tone of pink which has been observed to temporarily reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior. It’s only temporarily calming, but long term effects are the opposite.
The kid wanting to go in the room wasn't stupid. He was actually being very smart. He knew the tv crew and guard wouldn't let him cause they'd get hit with a endangering welfare of a minor suit so quick. Most of them weren't dumb, they were calling their bluffs. And the kid didn't self-snitch. "Shooting dice isn't that bad" is not admitting to shooting dice. It's an observational opinion. The lawyer was trying to use it to trick him into thinking he did confess. If I recall that episode currently, the kid stands his ground and says he never admitted to shooting dice. That's why they cut his clip short.
Hell, shooting dices into crime, unless you do it for money. If you do it for chips, that are of no inherent value, or for something else, like candy amongst friends, you’re fine. I don’t understand why they are coming down so hard on this kid.
Lol. When you think of what he was alluding to, he got the point across just fine. He did it to show that if she kept dating adult guys, she would end up in a position where she would be forced to do things she doesn't want to do. He has all day, but the guys she dates will not pretend to be so patient...
I don’t remember his name but there was one boy on this show that the inmates said “if you come here we WILL be waiting for you.” Then he did and they had him come tell the next batch of kids what happened to him when he went there and they had beat him to a pulp his first night there. That is actually part of it.
Interesting. I hope the next batch of kids heeded his warning... I could at that I feel bad for the kid, but there's really nothing that can be done in situations like this. It's a done deal once you're in prison. Not every prisoner beats kids that end up in prison, but just to think that he was warned ahead of time and it didn't sink in that he would not be protected...
@@YouKnowMeDuh from what I remember he turned 18 two month after his visit and that’s why they threatened him to turn his life around because if he ended up there they would “teach him a lesson” and how he ended up in an adult prison with them. So they didn’t do it because he mouthed off to them they did it as a punishment for ending up there after they warned him not too.
The show was all scripted, so the kid took it with a grain of salt. He probably didn't actually end up there to begin with seeing how heavily scripted the show is whenever the cameras were rolling, but if he did I don't think those prisoners beat him up seeing how the show makes sure that the only inmates allowed near the kids were those who had long-term good behavior and could pretend to act tough and hard for the show
my dad was a teacher, and he said a kid in his class was put on this show. he's not in this video but my dad said it scared the jibes out the kid. you apparently do have your parent sign something and it is your local prison
0:22 Correction on premise of the show: The show is about parents who have no idea how to raise or discipline kids, who are also so dumb that they believe a bunch of cops and inmates yelling at them will somehow replace a lifetime of neglect.
Not all true. My father didn't know how to raise a child and had to raise me after my mom died. I was 13 and I to this day don't have a criminal record.
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 Not sure why you think something unrelated entirely makes my comment "not all true" If your dad never put you on scared straight, then this comment is clearly not referencing either of you.
@@cubonefan3 "Not every parent of a bad kid is stupid: - I disagree but you clearly missed the point. Only a bad parent would think having other people scare their children is a good idea. A good parent would never put their kid through scared straight, because it's just a toxic show and the program is 100% ineffective.
@@kiraPh1234k you said about parents not being able to raise to discipline a child. Just cause they don't doesn't mean all kids turn out this way So it is related cause you are assuming
i dont think "scaring" teens is gonna do it. yeah they get freaked out but as soon as they leave theyre gonna think theyre above it all. you have to connect with the deeper emotion they are holding onto. thats why the ones where they bump into a family member hit them so hard. or the ones where someone sits down and just talks it real to them, when someone yells in your face your defence is up and you block out the words. if you want someone to change you have to find the thing in their heart that the act is all for
From what I've heard scared straight barely worked for the kids, a lot of the kids who did go apparently went to jail anyway, some a few days after being on the show.
who would've thought that trying to brainlessly bully these kids into behaving better is not going to work and is actually going to make it worse......? oh yeah right, all the people with the tiniest amount of sense 😂
@@SangriaDracul Therapist here! These tactics don’t address the actual issues these kids are struggling with: Structure at home, coping skills for anger/anxiety/stress, stable home and school environment, proper medical and mental health care. Some can be struggling with a mental disorder / learning disability that isn’t being treated which leads to a lot of these behaviors. And if they are struggling in any of thee areas (unstable home, no parental guidance, basic needs not met, etc.) it can lead to these behaviors too. The scare tactic is only going to work on really empathetic kids that probably aren’t causing consistent trouble. If a kid already feels like the world is against them or is apathetic to consequences they already experience then a field trip to the jail isn’t going to do anything. These kids need ongoing support and unfortunately it is not always available or easily accessible / affordable for a lot of a families.
@@SangriaDracul A lot of these kids are doing what they're doing because they want attention or they think the way they're acting is 'cool' because of other family members who have done it, or they're encouraged to do it by the people around them. They could also be a product of their environment. The scared straight program was proven not to really work in several studies, as most of the kids ended up going to jail/prison anyway. For most of the kids in this show, what they really needed was some sort of behavioral therapy. Scaring them with prisoners yelling in their faces does very little to deter turn in the long run, just like the studies have shown.
Sad thing about all of this? ‘Scared Straight’ programs have been shown to have little to no effect on the rates of recidivism (return to criminality) in participants. Individual case studies have argued that ‘scared straight’ programs introduce minors to the routine and environment of jail; Softening the impact of a night in jail later in life. Thoughts?
@@nlellison99 Yes, O master of the universe. Any other decisions you wanna make for me? I'll get a list tatted on me, sos I don't forget....... _Actually,_ it seems I'll need to go Ghengis Kahn on the 🌎, if we're *ever* going to turn the tide of each subsequent generation degenerating from its predecessor.
I live near one of the Beyond Scared Straight Jails and my nephew's teacher had two girls who went on the show. They usually go to the local jail/prison, but that's only if they had the scared straight program there.
Showing angry kids, angrier adults is the dumbest thing ever. It’s supposed to show them where they’ll end up but all it does is show them they need to be angrier and care less about their life to beat people that challenge them. Anger is how they respond, they need to be taught that a different response is more effective.
While I do think the show interesting, I do agree. Being taken to see a prison does nothing to help with anger issues. They know that it's bad to be that angry but are still just about powerless to control it... Kinda hits home, because I can't say I can recall a time in my life where anyone ever gave me proper, meaningful advice about anger management. You could just bottle it up, but you'll just explode at some point.
@@YouKnowMeDuh I think that’s why the results with the kids were so mixed on that show. The kids that were really damaged and angry just got worse after the show. The kids that were just misbehaving and going through a phase got whipped right into shape and were almost unrecognizable after. You can scare someone who’s not angry. Anger is supposed to make you brave.
@@YouKnowMeDuh Do you have any good advice for anger management or something? My brother, especially in the last couple months, has started flipping out every time he gets even mildly frustrated...which you can imagine gets very annoying, very quickly. I want to help and give him suggestions, but he usually just ignores me or gets more frustrated because he doesn't listen to what I'm actually saying. (He's 9/10 ish).
This show is edited to look more intense than it is. I was in alternative school in high school and they took us to a prison and did the same stuff. I was in alternative school for one semester for fighting but I was otherwise pretty smart. The thing is unless you're dumb this doesn't work because you know its a set up and the prison can't actually put you in any danger, basically it's just funny watching grown men try and scare you when you know there's no actual threat. I started taunting the guards and the prisoners. The coach that ran the alternative school pulled me to the side and was like "Look, I know you're not fooled but just go along for the other kids it might help them." so I did. lol
I saw "scared straight" and thought to myself that it'd be weird for Ken to do a video on conversion therapy. Having seen few seconds into the video I realize how wrong I was.
I love that show for the chaos (though staged). There was one episode I thought might be legit - a gay couple that invited the girl to stay for a few months after the show ended. The episode itself seemed like all the others, but when they offered her to stay for a while after, that felt real. Dunno if it was or not - but sure felt like it. I'd like to think that some of it was real. I know the vast majority is bullshit - but I was a troubled teen that went to a TTI school and faced abuse. So I'd like to think that some of those kids (if they were as needing help as portrayed) did get some kind of wakeup call even through a scripted show. Maybe just the optimist in me though.
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Not trying to be tough here but to me its funny af hearing an inmate say "i ain't got all day!" Like bruh...you got somewhere else to be? Lmao 😂 Edit: thats why i wont make CO. My mind and mouth kick in before my common sense. Thanks for 15 likes
I would of seriously died of laughter if Number 10 would of said his safe word was like Pineapple Juice just because them helping him do push ups reminds me of that clip. 😂
I wish more schools had a mentorship program vs just sending him home time and time again. Must be so much in-class time gone due to behavioral issues.
I never understood suspension. Like the kids obviously don’t want to be at school. So the appropriate punishment is to just give them what they want? If anything there should be a way to force them to stay for extra hours. Even if they just have to sit for a couple extra hours doing nothing. It’s better then just being like “you can’t come to school for a few days.” There was times in Highschool where I would’ve loved to be suspended just cause I was having a bad week and was too burnt out to do anything other then be miserable. My parents would be upset but the most they could do is just prevent me from being able to do anything fun, which wouldn’t have mattered because all I wanted to do was sleep. But if I was forced to stay at school or walk the like 4 miles back home up hill, that shit would have been a real punishment.
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A little late to the party commenting, but I remember watching an episode of scared straight where two kids on it (one with anger issues, one with a developing drug problem due to depression) and it was baffling to me how they put those two kids, who definitely needed therapy, on a last resort prison visit. I see scared straight as a warning for those who've already exhausted therapy, have poor parents or poor role models, to get an idea of what the future might be as a last resort. Often it doesn't work, and then the kids learn the hard way: but it doesn't mean put your kids who have very sensitive emotional problems into something that isn't therapy.
I remember an episode that actually had a kid visit the same jail his father was in, or maybe it was his uncle? It's been a long time since I watched any of it. but it was actually a pretty emotional moment for the two and help the kid a lot from what I remember.
You too? I used to just let Comcast play the seasons through, and would fall asleep with it on, and I really wish they had had video descriptions for it. 🤣 I missed a lot of the visual humor, and a lot of the written text.
I've been to jail and this shit is real! Its a whole different world in there I've seen someone get beat up over toilet paper to being on the phone too long lmao 🤣
I have a cousin who is ex military, he considered joining the cops, instead he went into Prison Guarding (UK) he’s worked in many prisons, he’s kinda respected by many of the guys he guarded. He’s seen some of them since they left prison and they were happy to see him and very happy to be out. Of course some just yoyo’d back in, but many grew up and grew straight. He however says the WORST prisons he ever served is Women’s prisons, he said men get in trouble for dumb acts, impulsive acts and crimes of stupidity & overt violence, they’ll scare you until you shit your pants. Whereas women PLAN, women take their time and their crimes will scare you so hard you will be constipated for 2 years and never sleep again. Once in prison the guys will fight and get the beef over with, sometimes it is better to let them have their spat, Chuck them in set and they’ll come out it’s all over n squashed. But the women, ohh hell no, if those women hate you they HATE YOU! They will do you in eventually, they will wait and plot it could be a fight that started because one chick stared at another chick 6months ago and she’s still pissed. Gotta say Gangsta Pro is a baaaaaaaad boi!
Man, when I worked at the local jail, some kids would come in every now and again for some off brand scared straight. The inmates would get so excited to scare the kids. They’d act insane the entire time the kids walked around outside the sections. When they left the inmates would all high five and go back to talking on the phones and playing cards. It was always hilarious.
Kept them busy and they get to clown on some wanna be tough kids? Shit, why not 😂
We did that a few times in prison. We could say anything just not touch them
It's just so weird. Kids need to be given therapy. Not this lazy crap.
@@ThePanMan11 Therapy doesn't fix everything...... Plus showing kids what's its like in prison, is actually a good wake up call. It shows kids what's its really like in the real world, and gives them the chance to change for the better..
(My opinion)
@@why6280 I've lived in America and I know first hand how dog crap your mental health care is. You can't say therapy doesn't fix everything when you've never given it an actual shot.
More than half of these kids probably have some undiagnosed and untreated condition.
Scaring people straight does not work. If it did then people who actually get sent to jail would not get sent there a second time. Instead your recidivism is through the roof.
*I think it's pretty goddamn funny to hear a prison inmate say "I don't have all day!" Uh, all you got is time.*
LMFAOO
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I know it’s been two years. With that said, dude needs to go check his prison pen pal requests so he can get a sugar mommy.
Ironically enough, all the prisoners who appear on the show are able to do so because they’ve been having good behaviour, most of what they do to those kids is an act, modelled after the “worse inmates”
i mean, of course they are.... imagine the producers would put the kids together with actual unpredictable psychopaths.. it would be a recipe for disaster and for a bunch of dead kids 😝 and i'm astonished by how many of these kids don't seem to realize that but a lot of the adult viewers don't seem to realize it either so i'm again surprised by my misplaced faith in humans' capacity for logic 😂
Yeah, I bet they're having a lot of fun scaring those children lol
Tell that to Big Dragon.
@@stefanforrer2573 I prefer them to do that. Seriously, someone should do that off camera.
But record it and years later got the kids to tell did it change them or not. It would be interesting to watch the reaction.
true
they act up for the kidss but they are the best behaived prisoners in there. Recently anyway.
"If you dont shape up you're going to end up here!"
Chick throws the punch
"Ight we were just talking out our asses but you're actually going to jail"
I went to high school with two kids who were put on Beyond Scared Straight. I remember everyone in school being surprised they were even on the show to begin with because they were not as tough as they claimed to be 😂
They never are lmao
@@sahirdamani1264 LOL never 😂
Lol we had the like girl’s 16th birthday show at our school and she wasn’t even rich... or popular. Nobody knew who she was, was a weird Iranian girl nobody knew.
@@Luminousreign Oh like my Super Sweet 16? I used to always wonder if half those kids that were invited to the parties even knew who they were lol
These prisoners are looking for brownie points. They won't do anything. In fact... Being scared of them makes no sense. They're just little kids with big mouths and no brains.
Oh yes. This show. Love that they would "scare" the kids straight and then the kids go back home to the parents (and the environment) that made them that way. This show should have made the parents go to a parenting class while the kids were gone. Parents need to change too, they can't just keep hitting their kids and threating them to be better people. You need to lead by example. These kids don't have anyone to look up to.
Its not always bad parents. Most times yes. But there are times when it's a single parent raising kids
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 lack of parental guidance still is on the parents. But I know what your talking about.
@@KrayZky So how exactly can a single parent working possibly 2+ jobs have time to parent. Especially if the other parent is a deadbeat who wants nothing to do with the kid. Or a parent died,
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 it’s hard but doable.
Nature vs nurture
“ that baby’s gonna hand her a shank” 😂 you guys always get me. Thank you for the laughs
Yeah I laughed at that lol 😂
The baby's been spending 8 months crafting that shank for mom.
The imagrey of it reaching out with the little hand and shank is so vivid.🙈🙉
Beyond scared straight is something my criminal justice professors would talk about all the time because of how ineffective it was. It did not deter those kids from continuing their bad actions whatsoever.
I always thought it looked stupid and never thought it had any long term effect.
There was a similar thing in the uk which ended up actually being successful because they helped the kids too instead of trying to scare them.
The show was about British kids going to an American jail and basically living there for a week.
In the last episode they showed the kids are doing well now.
Its a tv show. The actual program that doesn't have cameras is more effective than some reality tv show of it
As I said before, the only program that would have even been mildly effective, were the ones in queen Ann county, Maryland.
@@snooganslestat2030 my understanding, is that in some children, it could have induced PTSD.
Remember the kid that they said "you wanna come in here?" And he said "I can't" and they said "WHY??" and he said something like the guard didn't open the door far enough, straight-faced 💀💀💀
We watched that episode in my criminal justice class in hs. That clip had pretty much all of us laughing.
😂
Lmbooo that literally took me out!! The fool actually made steps to go inside🤣🤣🤣😂
thats the classic thug life meme
@@Sigma2HisAlpha Not necessarily a fool. The inmates selected are no risk and looking to score brownie points by participating, not extra time. As a child they can not consent so even if they signed anything, if anything happens they absolutely can press charges and sue the prison, show, and anyone else involved. Arguably the entire thing is child abuse, so they'd likely have a case regardless, and the worse they have been treated, the more likely to win and the bigger the payout. The only people who should have any concern in a conflict situation are the guards and the producers...they are trusting inmates not to cross a pre-defined line. I'd 100% call their bluff.
"Michael Jackson's ghost is looking at me right now!"
That legitimately creeped me out too. Thank you both for the constant laughs and useful information 😂
Watching Ken and Buff take all my stress away for sure i got a huge exam tomorrow and was finding it so hard to fall asleep and now im alright again 🤍
Edit- omfg i didnt notice so many of u replied thank u so much guys it went great :')
Well your still here commenting awake so did it really work
At least you didn’t move to Australia right when they started putting people in covid camps for not being vaccinated and taking peoples houses and children.
Good luck
Good luck🤘
You'll do great! Believe in yourself💖
"What's that....is that a ghost in the background?" that really made me lol 😂
When Ken asked "do they send them to their local prison? ...Enemies...waiting for you" my whole mouth dropped, I never thought of that lol
My first job when I was 18 was actually working in a class A high security womens prison in the UK.
It was super weird going from being in school and having to call all the teachers sir to all these prisoners calling me sir.
Most were just bored and wanted to chat.
The two scariest parts were the drug addicts as they seemed like they’d lost their souls, the drugs just scouped it out, and the murderers because they seemed so normal. You always think a murderer will just seem creepy or scary, but nope, these women seemed totally normal, which is frightening.
I got out of there within a year and decided to work in a hospital for the NHS to help people instead.
In Missouri they lowered the age from 23 to right after high school. I would live to hear some stories from the UK.
@@HarveyTalksPrison lowered the age of what? For people to work there? You had to be 23 to work in a prison in the US before?
I think its 18 in the UK because of basic labour laws and needing to sign the official secrets act as certain aspects of how a prison operates is considered governmental secrets.
@@jonsmith5058 Yes a guard had to be 23 but they lowered it to after graduating high school which is 18 or 19
That's a true sociopathic trait, to be so "normal" & yet you've done some of the most craziest shit
in america, sir and ma’am are insults
So, I have a story.
When I was a kid we went on a field trip to our local jail/prison. How normal that is, I don't know. The girls went to the women's block and the boys to the men's. Naturally we were taken to the low risk areas.
I have no idea why, but one of the female inmates specifically paid attention to me saying stuff along the lines of how sweet I am and how I'd be someone's bitch if I went to prison. She was handsy too. I was scared out of my wits. I was somewhere between grades 4 and 6.
I didn't know much about much, but that sure as hell made me never want to go to prison.
That sounds potentially traumatic. Are you doing okay?
@@shoshitaketakeyani3275 Hey! Thanks so much for your concern 😊
I don't think about it a lot at all. I just remembered the event as I watched this.
I can't say for sure if this experience gave me trauma, but I have always been a super goody two shoes, so maybe it did that 🙈
Fifth. You'd have been in fifth grade 👍
I'm glad it scared you and you never went to prison
During my - I think - junior year of high school I took a Practical Justice class and we took a field trip to a jail to learn about the system, but we didn't interact with any inmates. Just the security and administrative people. We did have a couple "tough guys" who wanted to get tazed. They were over 18 and it was the joy of my week to see them fall to the ground.
Regardless, I could never imagine anyone under highschool age going to an active jail for a field trip.
On a former job, I took a group of teens for an "adult" jail tour at county. It was a leadership development program so these weren't at- risk teens but the volunteer leaders thought it was a good idea for kids to understand how futures can go wrong. They had been to the juvenile facility in the past and parents weren't aware for certain crimes, the state could request trial as adult in a teen at a certain age. (I studied a little law in college. ) We had the couple of usual calm in- mates let the kids ask them questions to understand how they got into their situations better. During the tour, one in- mate decided to moon the group. Thankfully, the chaperones and I managed to get hands over eyes before too much damage was done. I saw a CO run toward the cell and I heard his cell mate yell, "You dumb@$$! Now we both are going to lose privildges!" and the distinct should of a punch. The kids rated that trip as one of the best.
Right now, it hurts like Almighty Jesus to laugh, but that’s the best laugh. I’ve had all morning. Thank you! 🤣 😬
Y’all make my day. Even having you playing in my pocket through some earbuds all day at work helps me get through the day
I thought I was the only person…
Same
For real. They never fail to make me laugh
This is what I do.
I went to a scared straight program because I didn’t want to do dishes. 😂 This still goes on regardless of the show.
You literally do not have to do any crime but tell your parent no and you will get accepted in the program.
the parents did have to sign waivers and stuff and a lot of kids ran into their family who were locked up. It was mainly moms but that definitely got through to them, seeing their parent locked up and begging them to change their ways and to not end up like them. Also the guy with the sucker was trying to show her how her life was gonna end up if she kept dating adult guys. That she would be forced to do things she didn't want to do. A different guy did the same thing to another girl on a different episode except he used fun dip instead of a sucker.
Ooo, I remember fun dip! When the kids met family it always got to me.
Yeah it’s a pretty interesting show! I viewed it also like if she ends up there it’s just a preview of everyone there making her their “bitch”. They all think they’re so tough and they’ve only been on this earth for 12-17 years they ain’t seen shiiieeetttt
@@beckybunny7834 exactly lol
U do realize abuse I likely why these kids ended up" bad" and more abuse isn't going to fix that it's going to make it worse defending this show is foul
@@nlellison99 ig I never really thought about it like that. I haven’t watched all the episodes and I know that a lot of them probably do have a bunch of issues at home that need resolved. I wasn’t trying to defend the show tho…I was just stating things I knew about it.
It always bothered me that on their name tags they put things like "anger issues" or "disrespectful" down. Neither of those are crimes, and it's weird to me that parents would rather scar their children in a jail then take them to therapy.
Its to prove a point. Since they 100% can't anticipate what an inmate can do they put the stuff they do outside a crime. Also if someone wasn't convicted of a crime putting hee crime they did would be against the law
@@Truecrimeresearcher224i think OP meant when they’re showing whatever the kid did to get put in the program. some of their taglines had stuff like “talking back” and “disrespect” and stuff, which isn’t a crime and something the parent should be handling
Absolutely right on this
The predominant demographic of the kids on this show routinely don’t get the benefit or even the consideration of their behavior being seen as kids acting out or being rooted in trauma.
this wouldnt have scared me I think most of those kids probably laugh about it later fully aware that they cant get hurt while there.
My mom constantly threatened to send me to beyond straight... even though the worst thing I've done was literally run away because I was told I couldn't eat dinner lol.
I hope you were old enough back then to know that kids don't get sent to jail for running away!
@@YouKnowMeDuh lol of course! Once I turned 16 I left the house and I have been thriving ever since. I feel bad for these kids in these shows. Some of them just have bad home lifes and act out. Instead of getting them help, they just tried to 'scare' them into behaving, which we all know by know does the exact opposite. Kids act out cause something isn't right, at least in my experience.
They cancelled it because they would actually leave kids unsupervised and they got hurt/ assaulted.
Sometimes by the jail staff. Some of those people are pure sociopaths.
Thing is, I love this show just for the comedy value, but the reality is that the scared straight program doesn't actually work. There's studies and research to prove that going through this program does almost nothing for most of these kids. A lot of them just end up going back to their bad behavior and end up locked in prison themselves. There's an actual episode that shows a kid who has that exact thing happen to them.
The real issue is that instead of scaring the kids, they should be helping them by trying to figure out what the source of the behavior is, and getting them professional help and even therapy. But that approach is more expensive, time consuming, and not as funny. So they just scare the hell out of the kids and pretend that it works.
Well said.
Dude I'm 36 now and when I was 16 I went through one of these programs while I was on probation after I already got arrested. They did all this plus like a small boot camp. I just had a bad attitude and got into a fight and got removed. I didn't see it helping any of us. I was just convinced I could make it in prison after. And had to learn the hard way when I was 19 and really go to jail, then prison. I just hate how dumb I was .
I'll be damned if it ain't hilarious though
I agree with u and n my opinion i think a big part of the problem is broken homes.
Yep. Someone who is "bullied" into acting right is more likely to be even more rebellious.
If anyone is wondering most of the inmates that are on scared straight are the 'high functioning' inmates. generally they are the ones that are smarter and repentant of what they have done. Most of them are the ones on good behavior and things like that. Still scary dudes for sure but generally they are the 'good' inmates if that makes sense. They are told to be really mean to the kids and sound really crazy and act out in the jail on purpose. Its not far from what actually happens in jail but its, in a way, staged.
It's over the top. Like people ain't gonna be screaming in your face the whole time in jail. The program wants to make the kids think that jail will be the same experience they go through like the program but every single day but it's not..
@@skettlez9732 yeah but theres more of an existential fear and sense of hopelessness in prison that you cant show a kid in like 2 days. but you are right
to be fair, if you get dragged to prison in front of a camera team and they put on a show just for you, I can see how some might struggle to take it serious
Literally all of “scared straight” is just putting on a show. None of this should be taken seriously
I think another issue is that the kids know the inmates aren't allowed to hurt them, thus why they act all big and bad. However if they saw somebody or got attacked then they would probably take it more seriously. But even then scaring people doesn't change what they do
yeah was thinking the same, dont think not being scared means theyre dumb, they just know the situation is fabricated and are trolling, the pink shirt kid literally put on the pink shirt to troll lol
@SHADOWRUNNER156 aren't allowed to hurt them lol
As they have a kid by the shirt and pants dropping him like a quarter 🤣
Youre also put infront of the most spineless "good boy" prisoners they could find. They yell at the kids for "acting tough" meanwhile half the kids are probably tougher than them lmfao
The kids on the show might have been troubled teens and whatnot, but the show was canceled because it was revealed all the kids, guards, and inmates were going off a script and everyone knew what was going to happen whenever they walked in. They chose the least aggressive inmates to act more tough and hard. They also made the kids follow a script that made them seem worse than they actually were, or more dumb than they were.
But even if it wasn't scripted, if you sent your troubled child to something like this without trying to take them to therapy or something first, then it's you to blame if it doesn't work. Exposing your child who most likely has some kind of mental trauma to have made them act that way to begin with to "real" bullying and violence is probably the dumbest thing I've ever heard if you expect it to change them.
inmate:"Come in show me you're funny"
trublesome teen: "Aight bro, so this guy decides to turn himself into a pickle"
im funny
@@AxxLAfriku nah
this is literally how its going to be ain a few years
Nooooooooo
You will never understand jail unless you really feel the hopelessness of never seeing your family again. My mom was sick, and I was arrested for punching a man in the face as he tryed to steal our car. They never gave him any charges but he filed them on me.... great system!
I love how the unwrapping of the lollipop is Danes cutoff to not being able to make it in prison 😂😂😂😂🤣
Well it should be because once you open it up for them, you're declared their bitch.
4:26 willy rockin that Cajun pawn star "big daddy" hair cut.. 🤣🤣🤣
Big Big ups to Dane to read that sentence at the end in first try. a real gangster XD
That part killed me! 😂😂😂
The tootsie pop scene made me, her, you, my entire family, all of my friends, and everyone who has seen this uncomfortable.
The thing is, in basically everywhere, the sentence for first degree murder is life in prison or the death penalty. In non-death penalty states, they are sentenced to life with no chance of parole so some of them turn out to not care what they do in prison including additional crimes.
I mean, would you? If you knew you were never getting out of prison, nor no matter what you did (good deed wise), you were never having a chance of stepping into freedom EVER AGAIN, would you care if you committed crimes in prison?
I know I wouldn't give two fucks 😂
@@daniellehayes3798 I think I would try to make my life enjoyable inside, gain privilidges like TV or whatever. otherwise if I had anger yeah I'd have no reason NOT to except not wanting enemies/difficulties inside. If it was me when I was in a bad way in life, when I was committing crimes, then I probably would be hurting/angry too much to care but me now? I would want to make a chill life in there best I could ig. Offer things to other inmates like playing therapist/helping with writing up plea deals etc. Put schooling to use as an asset or whatever lol
@@brigade7678 you clearly don't know what prison is like but good idea in theory
Ehh that’s not always the case. Even when you are sentenced to life, you can gain certain privileges with good behavior. I believe the inmates that they use for this show are typically those who have been on good behavior and cooperating with that program probably earns them more privileges.
LMFAOOO!!! Ken at the end... "If today's your birthday, birthday birthday, *kisses*" lololol 😘😘😘🤣🤣🤣
Somewhere (I don't remember where) there was a prison and the walls were painted in soft pink colors. It had a calming effects on the prisoners and less fights broke out. I love color psychology.
Switzerland.
Baker-Miller Pink, also known as P-618, Schauss pink, or Drunk-Tank Pink is a tone of pink which has been observed to temporarily reduce hostile, violent or aggressive behavior. It’s only temporarily calming, but long term effects are the opposite.
bro was in a psych ward
Oh! You are thinking of Baker Miller pink. It only works for a very short time, maybe about a week, and then it begins to have the opposite effect.
The kid wanting to go in the room wasn't stupid. He was actually being very smart. He knew the tv crew and guard wouldn't let him cause they'd get hit with a endangering welfare of a minor suit so quick. Most of them weren't dumb, they were calling their bluffs. And the kid didn't self-snitch. "Shooting dice isn't that bad" is not admitting to shooting dice. It's an observational opinion. The lawyer was trying to use it to trick him into thinking he did confess. If I recall that episode currently, the kid stands his ground and says he never admitted to shooting dice. That's why they cut his clip short.
Hell, shooting dices into crime, unless you do it for money. If you do it for chips, that are of no inherent value, or for something else, like candy amongst friends, you’re fine. I don’t understand why they are coming down so hard on this kid.
Doesn't have all day for her to unwrap the Tootsie pop? He's in prison, he's definitely got all day.
Lol. When you think of what he was alluding to, he got the point across just fine.
He did it to show that if she kept dating adult guys, she would end up in a position where she would be forced to do things she doesn't want to do. He has all day, but the guys she dates will not pretend to be so patient...
I absolutely love Ken and Dane's friendship. They're such likeable people with great humour. Binge watching all of their videos ❤️❤️❤️
I don’t remember his name but there was one boy on this show that the inmates said “if you come here we WILL be waiting for you.” Then he did and they had him come tell the next batch of kids what happened to him when he went there and they had beat him to a pulp his first night there. That is actually part of it.
Interesting. I hope the next batch of kids heeded his warning... I could at that I feel bad for the kid, but there's really nothing that can be done in situations like this. It's a done deal once you're in prison. Not every prisoner beats kids that end up in prison, but just to think that he was warned ahead of time and it didn't sink in that he would not be protected...
@@YouKnowMeDuh from what I remember he turned 18 two month after his visit and that’s why they threatened him to turn his life around because if he ended up there they would “teach him a lesson” and how he ended up in an adult prison with them. So they didn’t do it because he mouthed off to them they did it as a punishment for ending up there after they warned him not too.
The show was all scripted, so the kid took it with a grain of salt. He probably didn't actually end up there to begin with seeing how heavily scripted the show is whenever the cameras were rolling, but if he did I don't think those prisoners beat him up seeing how the show makes sure that the only inmates allowed near the kids were those who had long-term good behavior and could pretend to act tough and hard for the show
wow, cool story that definitely happened. And these criminals are sooooo violent, definitely not volunteers on good behavior.
1:43 Stop resisting, lmao 😂
my dad was a teacher, and he said a kid in his class was put on this show. he's not in this video but my dad said it scared the jibes out the kid. you apparently do have your parent sign something and it is your local prison
Ah, so it is 'get straight or we're gonna be waiting for you...'
0:22
Correction on premise of the show:
The show is about parents who have no idea how to raise or discipline kids, who are also so dumb that they believe a bunch of cops and inmates yelling at them will somehow replace a lifetime of neglect.
Not all true. My father didn't know how to raise a child and had to raise me after my mom died. I was 13 and I to this day don't have a criminal record.
@@Truecrimeresearcher224 Not sure why you think something unrelated entirely makes my comment "not all true"
If your dad never put you on scared straight, then this comment is clearly not referencing either of you.
Dude chill out. not every parent of bad kids is stupid. There’s a lot of other things that can contribute to how bad a kid is.
@@cubonefan3 "Not every parent of a bad kid is stupid: - I disagree but you clearly missed the point.
Only a bad parent would think having other people scare their children is a good idea. A good parent would never put their kid through scared straight, because it's just a toxic show and the program is 100% ineffective.
@@kiraPh1234k you said about parents not being able to raise to discipline a child. Just cause they don't doesn't mean all kids turn out this way
So it is related cause you are assuming
"Tell me, how many licks did it take?!"
And now, I have soup dripping out of my nose...
If I were able to drink, coffee or tea, I would probably be wiping it off of my phone, chest, blankets, and probably the poor dog. 🤣
It’s been two years and Dane reading
“I fih I smo wee I steel I’m dissrespehfoo” still sends me.
i dont think "scaring" teens is gonna do it. yeah they get freaked out but as soon as they leave theyre gonna think theyre above it all.
you have to connect with the deeper emotion they are holding onto. thats why the ones where they bump into a family member hit them so hard. or the ones where someone sits down and just talks it real to them, when someone yells in your face your defence is up and you block out the words.
if you want someone to change you have to find the thing in their heart that the act is all for
Number 11: BuffPro
Got me laughing and cant stop
From what I've heard scared straight barely worked for the kids, a lot of the kids who did go apparently went to jail anyway, some a few days after being on the show.
who would've thought that trying to brainlessly bully these kids into behaving better is not going to work and is actually going to make it worse......? oh yeah right, all the people with the tiniest amount of sense 😂
considering most of those kids weren't even sent there for legal trouble i don't think that happened often.
fun fact; pink underwear in most prisons actually DOES mean you're somebody's jailwife
In my highschool they showed us pictures of toilets in prison and I'm never committing a crime
i replayed the part that Dane reading the comment in gangster way so many times and still can't get enough of it, love you both
13:01 Dane killed this
"Tell me how many licks it took" absolutely lost my shit there on that one dane 🤣
Who was this girl kidding? Did she really think she was gonna be able to take that guard? 😂😂😂 She is way out of your weight class sweetie
The girl was so small, lol. Swung so wide that you COULDN'T miss that it was coming rofl.
13:01 I like how you had to have Dane decipher that for you LOL
As a criminology student, to "scare straight" don't work, its really counter productive! (according to what i've learned)
Could you elaborate?
@@SangriaDracul Therapist here! These tactics don’t address the actual issues these kids are struggling with: Structure at home, coping skills for anger/anxiety/stress, stable home and school environment, proper medical and mental health care. Some can be struggling with a mental disorder / learning disability that isn’t being treated which leads to a lot of these behaviors. And if they are struggling in any of thee areas (unstable home, no parental guidance, basic needs not met, etc.) it can lead to these behaviors too.
The scare tactic is only going to work on really empathetic kids that probably aren’t causing consistent trouble. If a kid already feels like the world is against them or is apathetic to consequences they already experience then a field trip to the jail isn’t going to do anything. These kids need ongoing support and unfortunately it is not always available or easily accessible / affordable for a lot of a families.
@@SangriaDracul A lot of these kids are doing what they're doing because they want attention or they think the way they're acting is 'cool' because of other family members who have done it, or they're encouraged to do it by the people around them. They could also be a product of their environment.
The scared straight program was proven not to really work in several studies, as most of the kids ended up going to jail/prison anyway.
For most of the kids in this show, what they really needed was some sort of behavioral therapy.
Scaring them with prisoners yelling in their faces does very little to deter turn in the long run, just like the studies have shown.
I see. Thank you guys!
That disrespectfoo nearly took me out 😂😂😂
Sad thing about all of this? ‘Scared Straight’ programs have been shown to have little to no effect on the rates of recidivism (return to criminality) in participants.
Individual case studies have argued that ‘scared straight’ programs introduce minors to the routine and environment of jail; Softening the impact of a night in jail later in life.
Thoughts?
Same with jail and prison, it’s not for rehabilitation
eh, all you can do is try. If this doesn't knock any sense into them, then too bad, so sad-- nothing is gonna straighten them out.
I've read for especially some participants who are also minorities or have low-income may feel a sense of comradery with the inmates.
@@SpartanVirus don't ever have kids
@@nlellison99 Yes, O master of the universe. Any other decisions you wanna make for me? I'll get a list tatted on me, sos I don't forget....... _Actually,_ it seems I'll need to go Ghengis Kahn on the 🌎, if we're *ever* going to turn the tide of each subsequent generation degenerating from its predecessor.
When Ken mentioned the dating app for people in jail, I honestly had forgotten it and was like "What, ShoweR?"
I live near one of the Beyond Scared Straight Jails and my nephew's teacher had two girls who went on the show.
They usually go to the local jail/prison, but that's only if they had the scared straight program there.
That babys gonna reach out and hand her a shank, it got you. That floored me
Showing angry kids, angrier adults is the dumbest thing ever. It’s supposed to show them where they’ll end up but all it does is show them they need to be angrier and care less about their life to beat people that challenge them. Anger is how they respond, they need to be taught that a different response is more effective.
While I do think the show interesting, I do agree. Being taken to see a prison does nothing to help with anger issues. They know that it's bad to be that angry but are still just about powerless to control it... Kinda hits home, because I can't say I can recall a time in my life where anyone ever gave me proper, meaningful advice about anger management. You could just bottle it up, but you'll just explode at some point.
@@YouKnowMeDuh I think that’s why the results with the kids were so mixed on that show. The kids that were really damaged and angry just got worse after the show. The kids that were just misbehaving and going through a phase got whipped right into shape and were almost unrecognizable after. You can scare someone who’s not angry. Anger is supposed to make you brave.
@@YouKnowMeDuh Do you have any good advice for anger management or something? My brother, especially in the last couple months, has started flipping out every time he gets even mildly frustrated...which you can imagine gets very annoying, very quickly. I want to help and give him suggestions, but he usually just ignores me or gets more frustrated because he doesn't listen to what I'm actually saying. (He's 9/10 ish).
13:07 highlight of the year😂😂💀
This show is edited to look more intense than it is. I was in alternative school in high school and they took us to a prison and did the same stuff. I was in alternative school for one semester for fighting but I was otherwise pretty smart. The thing is unless you're dumb this doesn't work because you know its a set up and the prison can't actually put you in any danger, basically it's just funny watching grown men try and scare you when you know there's no actual threat. I started taunting the guards and the prisoners. The coach that ran the alternative school pulled me to the side and was like "Look, I know you're not fooled but just go along for the other kids it might help them." so I did. lol
I love how they have know each other for YEARS, but Ken still needs Dane to translate “hood speak” or slang! 😂😂😂
I saw "scared straight" and thought to myself that it'd be weird for Ken to do a video on conversion therapy. Having seen few seconds into the video I realize how wrong I was.
That’s really funny.
"I fih I smo wee I steel I'm disreespehfoo" 😂🤣🤣 I'm crying 😭
Ken is rocking the stache and Hawaii shirt again
LMFAOOOOOO!!!! Ken needed Buff to read hood talk 💀💀💀💀
Finally!!! Now do the strictest parents show, those episodes are ridiculous 😅
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t
@@HalfNHalf. same!
I love that show for the chaos (though staged). There was one episode I thought might be legit - a gay couple that invited the girl to stay for a few months after the show ended. The episode itself seemed like all the others, but when they offered her to stay for a while after, that felt real. Dunno if it was or not - but sure felt like it.
I'd like to think that some of it was real. I know the vast majority is bullshit - but I was a troubled teen that went to a TTI school and faced abuse. So I'd like to think that some of those kids (if they were as needing help as portrayed) did get some kind of wakeup call even through a scripted show.
Maybe just the optimist in me though.
@Sorbet Kid naah the funniest is the dude who went to barbados and brought up marter luther kings freedom speech so he could smoke cigarettes 😂😂😂😂
I've been binge watching almost every single meme couch because I've been going through a really rough time rn and you guys ALWAYS make me laugh my ass off like I'm fr cryin in the middle of these episodes and for once it's happy tears I love you guys so much from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
Not trying to be tough here but to me its funny af hearing an inmate say "i ain't got all day!" Like bruh...you got somewhere else to be? Lmao 😂
Edit: thats why i wont make CO. My mind and mouth kick in before my common sense. Thanks for 15 likes
I loved Buff reading out the comment xD hilarious
I would of seriously died of laughter if Number 10 would of said his safe word was like Pineapple Juice just because them helping him do push ups reminds me of that clip. 😂
"Thats my change! You know how long it took me to acquire those?"
I love it when you 2 do videos together. You always make me laugh even when I’m feeling down ❤️
Suspended 70 times. At what point do we just accept maybe there should be one left behind?
I wish more schools had a mentorship program vs just sending him home time and time again. Must be so much in-class time gone due to behavioral issues.
I'm shocked they suspended them 70 times. Cause my old high school after I think 10 and you are done
I never understood suspension. Like the kids obviously don’t want to be at school. So the appropriate punishment is to just give them what they want? If anything there should be a way to force them to stay for extra hours. Even if they just have to sit for a couple extra hours doing nothing. It’s better then just being like “you can’t come to school for a few days.” There was times in Highschool where I would’ve loved to be suspended just cause I was having a bad week and was too burnt out to do anything other then be miserable. My parents would be upset but the most they could do is just prevent me from being able to do anything fun, which wouldn’t have mattered because all I wanted to do was sleep. But if I was forced to stay at school or walk the like 4 miles back home up hill, that shit would have been a real punishment.
My dad was a SGT at ISP. The stories I could tell you that my dad brought home...they would scare anyone straight.
Buffs translation skills are just 10/10 lol 😂
Had me busting laughing late night with that transition of that held kid lookin ded af 😂
All these kids need a Snickers..because they're not themselves when they're hungry.
LOL at Dane being "Urban Translator" for Ken at the end! 😎💙🤓
The best thing about Kens videos is all the crazy stuff he notices in the background!!😆
I mean being on a tv show against ur will and being underaged is the best time to try to punch a cop tbh…respect 🤣
I’ve never been so early before!!!
Saaaame
Sammeee bro
According to CZcams you were here before the video was uploaded
I disrespectfoo! Buff's translation was hilarious! 😆 love you guys!
THAT BABY GONNA HAND HER A SHANK!
Seen your vids since i was 13 now 23 n a half and i love your videos and helped me through tough times , you help me a lot and i am proud how far you have come .
A little late to the party commenting, but I remember watching an episode of scared straight where two kids on it (one with anger issues, one with a developing drug problem due to depression) and it was baffling to me how they put those two kids, who definitely needed therapy, on a last resort prison visit.
I see scared straight as a warning for those who've already exhausted therapy, have poor parents or poor role models, to get an idea of what the future might be as a last resort. Often it doesn't work, and then the kids learn the hard way: but it doesn't mean put your kids who have very sensitive emotional problems into something that isn't therapy.
Dane was way too on point with that dialect towards the end.
I remember an episode that actually had a kid visit the same jail his father was in, or maybe it was his uncle? It's been a long time since I watched any of it. but it was actually a pretty emotional moment for the two and help the kid a lot from what I remember.
Meanwhile, Ken’s background makes it seem like he’s in the prison’s visitation room waiting for Mary.
Beyond Scared Straight was amazing 😂 I used to binge it on demand when it was out. Lol
You too? I used to just let Comcast play the seasons through, and would fall asleep with it on, and I really wish they had had video descriptions for it. 🤣 I missed a lot of the visual humor, and a lot of the written text.
Hey Ken and Dane just wanted to say you guys always make me laugh when I need it most! Love you guys, keep being you!
I watch them for the laughs
Bruh that last comment was gold hahaha
When keeping it REAL goes wrong 🤣
BuffPro's Translation at the end was hilarious🤣
He nailed it!
I think if a dude was that close to my face trying to be intimidating, I’d go for a quick kiss 🤣
I've been to jail and this shit is real! Its a whole different world in there I've seen someone get beat up over toilet paper to being on the phone too long lmao 🤣
12:55
Ken: translation please?
Buff: ive got this
😂😂😂
13:00 pure gold
I have a cousin who is ex military, he considered joining the cops, instead he went into Prison Guarding (UK) he’s worked in many prisons, he’s kinda respected by many of the guys he guarded. He’s seen some of them since they left prison and they were happy to see him and very happy to be out. Of course some just yoyo’d back in, but many grew up and grew straight.
He however says the WORST prisons he ever served is Women’s prisons, he said men get in trouble for dumb acts, impulsive acts and crimes of stupidity & overt violence, they’ll scare you until you shit your pants.
Whereas women PLAN, women take their time and their crimes will scare you so hard you will be constipated for 2 years and never sleep again.
Once in prison the guys will fight and get the beef over with, sometimes it is better to let them have their spat, Chuck them in set and they’ll come out it’s all over n squashed.
But the women, ohh hell no, if those women hate you they HATE YOU! They will do you in eventually, they will wait and plot it could be a fight that started because one chick stared at another chick 6months ago and she’s still pissed.
Gotta say Gangsta Pro is a baaaaaaaad boi!
Dude I loooove dumb crime shows/documentary’s. Reality prison like this is entertaining asf