If you google BreakingCodeSilence or look it up on YouTube, there are hundreds of people who are giving details about the abuse they suffered in these reform schools for teens. I think the intention was for these places to be boot camp or scared straight kind of schools for troubled children. Yes, the children sent to these were often not angels and were problematic.
The thing is, you can’t really understand the abuse that went on in these places unless you read or listen to some of these stories.
Say what you want about Paris Hilton, but she is not making up the abuse in these places like Provo Canyon or Turn About Ranch. It seems there was a lack of oversight that allowed the staff too much power, and you know the saying about how “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”.
Breaking Code Silence.
There are many of the “Bataan Death March” schools in UT and AZ. Long forced marches, sleeping with just one blanket (if earned) on bare ground - crappy food and very little of it. The list goes on. Plenty of court cases ion line should you ever wish to dig them up.
Some see this method of “teaching” as discipline - others see it as criminal behavior.
My surprise is that the student victims don’t come back and extract revenge on these toads.
I'd understand and possibly believe if other kids had or have come forward about this same school, same abusive individuals, causing an intensive investigation to have been conducted, and people charged. One person making allegations does not make it factual, especially when it isn't reported until years later. Color me skeptical about individuals who wait 30+ years to disclose alleged criminal acts against them. They are not victims. The victims are the ones they could have saved by coming forward.