Last Thursday, Oklahoma City's finest juvenile delinquents were featured on the new season of "Beyond Scared Straight."
If you're not familiar with the show, the gist is pretty simple and formulaic. They take troubled, at risk, belligerent teens, and then put them in pretend jail for a day. While there, everyone from the jailers to the inmates to the janitors try to intimidate, humiliate and "scare strait" the kids by yelling at them, and forcing them to exercise, do chores and eat jail food. At the end of the episode, the kids then go back to a room with their families, have a temporary epiphany, talk about how they learned their lesson, and then everyone gets all emotional and cries before the kids go out and cause trouble again.