On 2006-04-04 06:32:00, Anonymous wrote:
"I'm a parent. Things are going smoothly. Only know of one kid that walked about six weeks ago and he's back. One kid went home when he turned 18. We like Carlbrook. Anon, could you be stirring the pot?"
Of course you do. You're not the one that has to live there.
I'll be so glad when we get the laws changed so that putting your kid in a private prison is illegal.
I don't know for a fact your kid wasn't court ordered to Carlbrook, but no kid should ever have to be incarcerated by their parents.
Carlbrook may be the equivalent of just a minimum security prison, but it's still effectively a private prison.
Prisoners in minimum security can just walk away if they like. They'll still be fugitives. If caught, they'll either go back to minimum security prison, most likely to serve a longer sentence than before they walked *or* they'll be sent to a higher security or otherwise more unpleasant prison.
Which is exactly analogous to Carlbrook and the other Programs whose cheerleaders allege the Program isn't a prison because the inmates could just walk out if they chose.
Minimum security prison is still prison. The state and federal prison systems understand that. It's only Programmies who lie to themselves (and us) and try to pretend it's not.
I want what you're doing to be illegal. In future, I want parents who succeed at doing what you're doing to go to jail, along with the owners and operators of any private jails who still continue to accept parent-placed kids.
I'm just one person, but I'm also a New York Times bestselling author who reaches an entirely different audience from Fornits or the various survivor organizations. I reach Republican current and former military, and their families, who don't know this is happening in their America and are going to be livid when they find out. I will be reaching out to my readers.
I'm just one person, but if enough individuals reach out and use whatever their own special resources are to get the word to as many people as possible, sooner or later we *will* succeed at getting the laws changed.
What you're doing is wrong. It ought to be illegal, and breaking those laws ought to carry jail time.
The vast majority of voters don't know what you're doing. You're doing it under their radar. When we get enough awareness among those voters to change the law, I hope you have to live with the scorn of the rest of society for doing this if you keep stubbornly insisting you've done nothing wrong at all and that you continue to be happy with doing this horrible thing.
It's one thing for the former program parents that have remorse. The ones that have no remorse for what they did or are doing are another thing altogether.
Most of society, if they knew what you are doing, would see it as monstrous. Know that.
I hope some day you will be able to see that it was monstrous, too, and that you'll at least be sorry for what you did.
Julie
