TSW Wrote:
These types of places simply have to low of a success rate and to high of a cost per diem rate to be justified. Setting aside the numbers I just don't find it in me to subject a person to that sort of treatment.
OK, let me chime in here.
Bootcamps are bad. No need to discuss or "pull data" like The Who, as it's all been done scientifically already. It's an axiomatic premise at this point.
That being said, I was a victim of the very first year class of "bootcampers" in New York. This was billed as a way to "rehabilitate" and to keep people "out of the prison system" even though the reality was that the bootcamps were actually part of the prison system.
Let me tell you from first hand experience. Abuse is rampant. Neglect is omnipresent. I and my platoon mates suffered incredible mental and physical abuse (beatings, forced stress positions, forced labor to exhaustion -
16 hour days fo hard labor every single day - etc, etc) all condoned by and implemeted by the state for our "own good."
Well, what's happened since then? Over 80% of people who finished bootcamp recidivated immediately (less that 6 months back in the streets), several of my platoon mates took their own lives and, of the 42 people I went in with
I and only one other guy managed to avoid death or lengthy prison sentences.
Two of forty-two "made it"!Studies have shown that bootcamps
increase criminal behavior and are
totally ineffective in terms of treatment or rehabilitation.
The end result? After the completion of several
longitudinal studies (that the TeenHurt industry refuses to alow to be performed on their programs, BTW)
all bootcamp programs were closed!Listen, folks, it ain't that deep.
Any program that forces participation (read "coercion") can not and will not provide positive results for the overwhelming majority of those subjected to it.[/b]
There's not much else to say.
Real scientists have proven it can not and does not have beneficial effect for subjects.
Can't you people get it through your thick fucking skulls that
your brand of "help" HURTS?[/b]