Looking for survivors of stoughton straight. I believe i was there between 1989 and 1991 i still have nightmares about that place and i will be 30 in two months. I wonder if they will ever go away. I have a child of my own now and i could never imagine isolating her like that under ANY cuircumstance. mabey my mother felt it was needed at that time but to this day i dont believe she quite understands to what extent she harmed me. I became extremely addicted to cocaine shortly after i left straight.I didnt have that problem prior i was much more messed up when i got out and still dwell on some of the painful secrets they make you spill there. Somewhere in that hell still lurked my diary when i left.God bless all survivors and god help anyone that thinks that place was anything but evil.
Moralizing, with the force of law or coercion, is a
far greater crime against the constitutional principles of our nation than unauthorized euphoria, regardless of the substance involved, be it chocolate or heroin.
--James
