Jonathan Lyle

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I'm Deputy Lyle with the Floyd County Sheriff's office. I can be the nicest, funniest guy you'll ever meet, and in the blink of an eye, I can be the biggest .... you'll ever meet in your life

”

—Deputy Johnathan Lyle, Beyond Scared Straight, Season 3 Episode 13

Jonathan Casey Lyle (November 2, 1979 - April 28, 2016) was a Deputy at the Floyd County Sheriff's Office in Georgia. He was widely considered the most popular officer on Beyond Scared Straight due to his tough love with troubled teens in the Floyd County Sheriff's program.

Deputy Lyle served in the US Army prior to beginning his career in the Floyd County Sheriff's Department. Possibly his experience in the US Army shaped his approach to the children, the humorist and apparent sadist that makes for the best Drill Instructors came out in Deputy Lyle. He had no patience with children who seemed to confront him or give him disrespect. He gave them Instant Negative Consequences.

Respect and manners were very important to Deputy Lyle. Even small lapses in good manners attracted his attention, comment and anger. He had no hesitation to check what he considered sloppy or bad behavior. He showed the same 'For the want of a nail" attitude that is in the best of soldiers. Leave nothing to chance and don't be a dumb ass.

The ultimate goal of Deputy Lyle's work was to strongly impress upon the children that the situation before them is "for real", that is it not a joke and that they really are headed for jail if they do not change their ways. He felt personally hurt when children would fail the program. This was especially shown when Toby returned because of allegations that he assaulted his Mom.

Relationships[]

Toby[]

"I am sick of your f*****g attitude! I pray, I pray to God that you break the law and you come see me! When you come here as an inmate, I will OWN you and I will decide every-f*****g-thing for you and it will be so g*****n s****y!!!"

--- Deputy Jonathan Lyle to Toby, Season 3 Episode 13.

Toby and Deputy Lyle first met on Season 3 Episode 13. Toby was booked into the jail tour for 15 charges of assault, aggravated assault, and assault with a deadly weapon. Throughout the tour, Deputy Lyle tried his hardest to break Toby down and yelled at him for minor mistakes. For example, at one point during the tour, every kid was asked to face the wall, but Toby was facing the window to the left of the wall. The colorful Deputy taunts Toby by saying, "You can't see through a wall unless you're Superman, and Superman ain't a b**** so you ain't Superman."

One of the methods that Floyd County uses to confront the children is to give them a controlled demonstration of the brutality of jail. They retreat to allow hand picked inmates to haze the children. "We let the inmates do what inmates do". Later, after the inmates broke into the kids' cells and looted them, the guards swoop in and control the situation.

Toby lost his blanket and misplaced his spit cup. When another Deputy asks Toby where his blanket, he coldly answers that one of the inmates took it. An angry Deputy Lyle swoops in and stands up for the Deputy and tells Toby that he's had it with his attitude and says that he will pray that Toby breaks the law and is booked in his jail. He even, at one point, threatened to charge Toby with Disorderly Conduct just so he could be locked up after the troubled teen kept answering his questions begrudgingly.

Eight months later, the colorful, energetic Deputy's prayers were answered. Toby was locked up for allegations of assault. During an interview, Deputy Lyle says that Toby can redeem himself the most in his eyes if he talks to the other kids and prevents them from making the same mistakes he made. Deputy Lyle said that he felt "hurt" when kids "spit on his helping hand".

Toby shows his remorse by telling the kids stories of having his food tray taken by force. He said he feared being "beaten down". Deputy Lyle asked him his inmate number. Toby recites the number without looking at his ID bracelet. Deputy Lyle says, "He knows it so well he doesn't have to look at it". While nobody noted it, Toby lives in a cell meant to two inmates but houses three to a cell. Someone has to sleep on the floor.

After two years in incarceration Toby was released on probation. In 2016 he was charged with possession of drugs and a firearm on a convicted felon. In 2019 he caught charges for possession of Meth. He has since been charged with felony level damage to a cell floor at the Floyd County Jail.

Koko[]

Deputy Lyle: Dude, I can feel your heart beating through your shirt, are you scared?
Koko: I don't got to be scared.
Deputy Lyle: Then why is your heart pounding like a little girl?
Koko: Y'all can't kill me.
Deputy Lyle: "Y'all can't kill me?" That makes no sense. Anybody can kill you.You could slip and fall on a banana peel. You could get in a car wreck. You could fall off a bridge.
Cpl. David Allen: You could have an aneurysm on a toilet! You never know!
Deputy Lyle: It makes you feel uneducated and rather stupid.

- Deputy Lyle and Koko trading barbs with each other, Season 9 Episode 2.

Deputy Lyle repeatedly worked on Koko to change his attitude about his allegiance with Yung Brew, a proving ground for the Blood Nation. Deputy Lyle challenged Koko to "go around the corner" if he wanted to prove his "hardness". Koko felt that Yung Brew was his people. Deputy Lyle retorted that Yung Brew would not take care of his family while he was in jail. Deputy Lyle repeatedly showed Koko his weakness and inability to handle the bigger inmates. Deputy Lyle showed Koko how little life matters by offering an smallest inmate in the pod, Luke, $5.00 to beat Koko. Luke immediately said yes and the said that he'd beat Koko for even a dollar. As the inmates were taken back to their cell block, one inmate told Koko the there were "a lot of G's in here" and that he'd better "watch himself". Koko was unable to hold his tongue when he mumbled, "G's and Bloods gonna beef". This didn't go over well when Deputy Lyle and the other officers overheard and swarmed him. During the confrontation, Koko tries to clear his name, but the officers didn't want to hear it. Deputy Lyle asks Koko if he remembered when he asked Deputy Lyle if he could write a letter to a judge to show that he's changed. He then threatens to write the judge himself. In the letter he'd say that Koko was still a "smart-ass, little punk, thug wannabe" and that the overall message of the letter would say that Koko "wasn't worth s***" and to "send him away". Shortly after the confrontation, Koko began to see that Jail was not for him. Unfortunately Koko decided to participate in a foolish stunt involving a stolen car and high speed chase. Koko said that he regretted the stunt.

Ethan[]

Cpl. David Allen: Grandma's making apple pie and you're STEALING from her!
Deputy Lyle: You are a dirt-bag piece of s***!! HOW IN THE HELL ARE YOU ARE YOU GONNA STEAL FROM AN OLD WOMAN?!!

- Deputy Lyle and Cpl. Allen breaking down Ethan, Season 9 Episode 2.

Ethan is the younger of two brothers. He mocked his older brother for crying while he was visiting Floyd County Jail. Very little time passed before Ethan too started to cry. Deputy Lyle went over the counter to respond to Ethan's apparent gesture of disrespect, an inadvertent smirk. He, along with Lt. Scott Knight and Cpl. David Allen swarmed him and quickly broke him down. An infuriated Deputy Lyle called Ethan a "dirt-bag piece of s***" and then angrily questioned how he could "steal from and old woman." Ethan and Deputy Lyle interacted again in the halls when the colorful Officer wiped Ethan's teary eyes while shouting, "It's OK! We'll make it better!!". Further confrontations with inmates, one of whom said that 'we take pretty boys like you for a ride' upset Ethan. After the tour ended Ethan was scared straight, deciding that robbing from his grandma and being a troublemaker was sending him to a bad place.

Ciale[]

"It's OK! Let's pacify him, here do you want some noonie?! Get in the box, I wanna carry you like a little baby! Get in the box, this is your crib! How old are you?!" - Deputy Lyle to Ciale, Season 3 Episode 13.

Ciale also broke down in tears. Deputy Lyle offered him some "noonie" then offered to "carry him like a baby", taking the tote that each child was issued as "his crib". Ciale quickly got the message that jail was not for him.

"So you know the difference between right and wrong, right? So why are you standing in front of me? Is it because you made a mistake? A mistake is when you knock up a fat chick! This is just stupidity! Quit being stupid!".

Baquria[]

"There's two people in life: people that make the choice or people that have no knowledge of the difference because they're raised a certain way. So was yours a choice or your parents didn't care about you? I asked you a question, it's common courtesy to give an answer when asked a question. Your parents have to care or they wouldn't have put you here. So that means that you choose to be this ignorant and this stupid." - Deputy Lyle grilling Baquria on her bad choices, Season 9 Episode 2.

Baquria is a very attactive young lady with a bad attitude. Deputy Lyle first confronted her with her sloppy way of of wearing a shirt and asked if she does everything in life the same way. He then asks Baquria if she acts the way she does because of how her parents raised her or because she chooses to. He then says that it can't be her parents fault because they cared enough about her to put her up to this program. He then showed Baquria one of his "gadgets" (a taser) that would make her comply with whatever he told her to do. When Baquria starts giving him attitude, Deputy Lyle and other officers flip her around and have her put her nose on the wall. At first, Baquria resists, but she finally complies when Deputy Lyle threatens to taze her.Others in the jail, and he, were able to get her to go straight.

Other Officers[]

Lt Knight[]

Lieutenant Knight runs the Turning Point Program. He said, "The hardest part of working with him is keeping a straight face".

Quotations[]

"A mistake is when you knock up a fat chick! This is just stupidity! Quit being stupid!".
"A lot of the kids don't understand, if you stupid, I'll act stupider. If you act pleasant, I'll act pleasanter".
"First I'll ask him nice then I'll tell him to do it, then I'll make him do it. I can lock them down for up to four days and they know it ".
"You really need to f*****g pull your head out of your a**. When you get back there, I want you to bend over, and I want to hear a loud, thunderous pop as you stand the f*** up really quick and it goes *Pop!* AND YOUR HEAD IS OUT OF YOUR A**!!!
"Ooh s***.... you cocked an attitude with me for the last f*****g time, do you understand?"
"Damn it! WHY DO STUPID PEOPLE KEEP GETTING F*****G LOCKED UP IN THIS B****?!!"
"YOU'RE ABOUT TO LOSE YOUR DAMN CELL BECAUSE YOU THINK I'M GOING TO TAKE IT! Quit it."
"Do you hear a man speaking to you? Can you put your f***ing head up? LOOK AT THE PERSON TALKING TO YOU. DON'T LOOK AT HIS DAMN SHOES, LOOK AT THE MAN IN THE EYES! MAN UP”
"MAN UP!"
*Mimics a circus theme* "Get the f*** up! Get the f*** up and out of my f***ing damn holding cell."
"Do NOT put your foot up, when I say your right foot, I say your right foot not your left foot, do you understand?"
One quote I wish they kept in that was in the intro, WOOOOO JUSTIN BIEBER “kicks door” YOU THINK IS F*****G FUNNY
WHY DO YOU HAVE DIP WHEN YOU WONT BUY DEODORANT YOU STINKY F**K

Summary[]

Deputy Lyle was a popular officer in the series. He did not always take himself seriously, tending to loud and boisterous remarks. His larger than life personality hid a genuine concern for the children. His military background probably shaped his strong motivation to check the juvenlie deliquency of participants in the program in a manner that may seem mean or even sadistic but is based on time tested methods. Basic training is a crucible that burns away flaky civilian behavior, sloth and lack of discipline.

Death[]

The death of Deputy Lyle was announced on April 28, 2016. He was thirty six at the time of his death. He was found unresponsive at his home and was pronounced dead by Deputy Coroner Gene Proctor. He passed away from a heart attack. He leaves behind a wife, two Daughters, and a Son. He also leaves behind his Mom and Step Dad. He is missed by his colleagues and family.