Four troubled girls learn that the trauma they put their mothers through at home is nothing compared to the terror of life behind bars at the Oneida County Jail in New York.

During a tour of the Floyd County, GA, jail, unpredictable Deputy Lyle bullies, coaxes and comforts to help create new futures for a car-jacking gangbanger, a shoplifting party girl, a violent fighter and a granny-robbing thief.

In the swamplands of Lake County, Florida, troubled teens find little to do but act out and break the law. Heather, 17, is a beautiful manipulator, who uses her looks to get what she wants.

Fourteen year-old Joseph, an explosive giant who attacks his adopted parents, may have finally met his match in the hardened inmates and officers of the Oakland County Jail near Detroit, Michigan.

Ferocious killer and inmate Hustle Man is dragged from a teen talk when he attacks an at-risk kid who refuses to comb another inmate's chest hair.

At Douglas County Jail in Georgia, two sisters defy both inmates and deputies but once their mother has an emotional breakdown, their eyes are opened to the pain they have caused.

At Hampton Roads Regional Jail, Virginia, 4 teens think that the hard reputations will protect them from an inmate onslaught behind bars. One teen is targeted by gang members and changing his ways may be the only thing to save his life.

During a physically exhausting all-night jail stay in Richland County, SC, Aaron, 12, a habitual liar, confounds deputies by excelling at every exercise--despite having a broken arm.