Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carl Cannon wants to make things clear up front: He is not in the business of doing scared-straight programs. "This is different," ...

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 ...

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, ...

STURTEVANT -- Faced with a shrinking budget and a staff that was stretched too thin, the Racine Correctional Institution has discarded a program that brought young people behind prison walls for a ...

Marc Brock's mother shares more on being invited to State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.

Carl Cannon and Elite coordinated with the Peoria County Sheriff's Office to try and steer a group of seventh- and eighth-graders in a positive direction. Inmates in the Elite Re-Entry Program shared ...