'Beyond Scared Straight': Inmate Lashonda Threatens Show's Camera Crew (VIDEO)

Prison is a tough place and it can breed tough people. Lashonda, who is for 10 years on a check fraud charge, is full of spit and vinegar. But at the same time, she seems passionate about reaching out to the troubled teens on "Beyond Scared Straight" (Thu., 10:30 p.m. EST on A&E).

If there was any question as to whether or not the inmates were putting on more of a performance with their speeches to the kids, Lashonda set the record straight. On the Dec. 29 episode, she was in the faces of those kids, letting them know that none of them are as bad as they think they are.

But, Lashonda had the same disdain and anger towards the camera crew filming.

She threatened them a few times for being too close to her face, and finally ,she snapped, forgetting the kids altogether. At that point, the guards escorted her -- still yelling at the camera crew -- out of the room while the kids looked on in confusion.

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Comments

[Johnny3021]

04:56 PM on 01/02/2012

Wow people don't know this was staged? A&E has to spice this show up some how because it was the same boring yelling and crying crap over and over and I don't know why they even kept this show around.Hopefully A&E doesn't start to turn into another TruTv with all those garbage shows Lizard Licking.Pawn Shop where they pay the customers to try and act.I'm sorry but I like the real deal Intervention,First 48 etc not these staged horrible acting reality shows.

[stupid humans]

01:34 PM on 01/02/2012

wtf is wrong with America?

[mother10]

11:23 PM on 01/01/2012

there is so much mental illness in the prisons...poor things

[specultr]

09:59 PM on 01/01/2012

How do you get 10 years in prison for check forgery? The worst public defender in the state.

[mark1966]

09:35 AM on 01/02/2012

I agree.10 years for check fraud.Killers have less time than that.

[IATSE MEMBER]

08:12 PM on 01/01/2012

LaShonda should do some push ups...

[IATSE MEMBER]

08:08 PM on 01/01/2012

She was just "Keeping it Real" !

[Kareeen]

06:30 PM on 01/01/2012

Lashonda obviously has a heart big enough to try to help the kids, but she must have had reason throughout life to be extremely defensive. Life can be so hard for some, starting at childhood and this is often he result. But don't let them still have power over you when you're grown by turning to crime and ending up behind bars. It's never to late.

[Kay Nicks]

06:02 PM on 01/01/2012

Mercy. I wouldn't step up to that on a good day.......she's too angry...and too big....and right at home in prison..

[EarDrummer]

08:58 AM on 01/01/2012

That's very sad in a pathetic way

[wonderfullone]

08:13 PM on 12/31/2011

Most prisons in the USA have a mental ward.--------------This woman should be an inmate patient there.---------------What a n*tjob.

[stjoshy]

08:08 PM on 12/31/2011

that chick wouldnt scare me. id calmly eat my cookies and just laugh if she yelled at me.

[Red45]

07:58 PM on 12/31/2011

As dangerous as she obviously is, she may do more to scare those youngsters straight than the other inmates in the program.

[JohnQpublic81]

06:28 PM on 12/31/2011

So was she always this violent and outspoken, or did prison help that?

[MA2AW]

02:24 PM on 12/31/2011

Instead of sending them to these places, try a belt, switch, or if they wanna go hard do what you can to knock'em out. But if you think by sending them to this place to get them to come around means either you are really late, or you really don't/didn't care up to this point in their lives what they were involved in. At this age it's basically up to them.

[Red45]

08:00 PM on 12/31/2011

If beatings worked, you'd only have to do it once. It just makes your children despise you.

[Kareeen]

06:33 PM on 01/01/2012

Physically " correcting" a child teaches only teaches them to be violent. Keep your hands off your children unless it to hug.

[John Paul From Austin Tx]

07:41 PM on 01/02/2012

your parents should of beat that stuttering out of you.

[Goldie Treasure]

10:16 AM on 12/31/2011

There is no way that I would let things get so out of control with my kid, that I would need to send them to prison to get "guidance" from someone like that. Parents nowadays let their kids run wild and try to be a friend instead of a parent and wonder why their kids don't respect them and become little criminals.