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« Reply #240 on: February 01, 2005, 03:35:00 PM »
Oh please honey.  You think something as immature and stupid as this is going to stop US???

Somebody feeling a little threatened???? :rofl:  :rofl:

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« Reply #241 on: February 01, 2005, 11:19:00 PM »
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« Reply #242 on: February 01, 2005, 11:34:00 PM »
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« Reply #243 on: February 02, 2005, 02:34:00 PM »
The petition is a way to show the authorities that there are people who want this abusive teen program closed - due to years of unwaranted abuse and maltreatment of troubled and mentally ill children.  
Will it work?  Only time will tell.....
A petition is a way to get authorities to take notice and realize that the people they are supposedly serving are aware of what's going on there and are petitioning them to do something about it...That's what a petition is for - it's to get those who can do something to take notice and pay better attention to the issue and investigate it.  

Faith means not wanting to know what is true.
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« Reply #244 on: February 12, 2005, 03:15:00 PM »
I spent about 5 months at PCS in 1993. PCS is a profit driven institution that employs unqualified, unsuitable staff. Humiliation and total suppression of individuality were inherent to the program, and the official punishments ranged from uselessly standing in complete silence for hours to violent restraint and seclusion in cold cement cells. Most of the students were medicated, often recklessly. All of these practices were protected by the students' total isolation and the facility's systematic censorship of mail and phone calls.
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« Reply #245 on: February 13, 2005, 08:31:00 PM »
I was there from late 1981 thru 1982.  i was at one time or another, at every level in the school, including senior level 4.  i suffered beatings, and witnessed some of the other "students" get beatings.  some included broken bones, dislodged teeth, sprains and contusions.  i was involved in an accident there and sustained a serious head injury.  i was taken to the hospital via ambulance, but was removed from the hospital prematurely.  the reason for this was that since i grew up in orem utah i was considered a big escape risk.  once back at pcs i was put in my rack, and be it not for some friends sneaking me food, i would have most likely died there.  my parents finally checked in on me, i was released to their care for several weeks after they threatened a lawsuit.  once back in the hospital i was told that i had suffered a life threatening contusion of the frontal lobe.  i would imagine that utah valley hospital would still have these records.  from what i remember it was called provo canyon boys school at the time, and the owner's last name was williams?  there were no girls there at that time, and the school consisted of "intake" "investment" units 1-6 made up the "outs?.
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« Reply #246 on: February 18, 2005, 07:59:00 PM »
I am not associated with PCS in anyway, neither am I a human rights advocate, but I learned of Angela Smith's story in an article featured in the "ENQUIRER". Wanting to know more I read up on Provo Canyon School and other similar facilities for children with behavioral and depression problems. I was shocked to find that there were schools doing such inhuman things to children and teens around today and that they are not being closed down! What they are doing is obviously illegal and justice should be made. I just hope that parents will stop sending their children to these living hells just because they cannot and most probably did not parent a child in the proper way and can't cope with having a child in the first place. Also, that these schools would stop spreading false propaganda about themselves and masking their "therapeutic programs" and making it look like they are doing good.
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« Reply #247 on: February 19, 2005, 08:39:00 PM »
Keep signing that petition - there are nearly 500 signers so far.   :wave:

If you'd like to view the petition it can be found at:
http://www.beyondbusiness.net/closepcs.htm
The signatures can be viewed at:
http://www.heal-online.org/sign.htm
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« Reply #248 on: February 28, 2005, 06:49:00 PM »
I will carry my memories of Provo with me forever.  They are always close at hand.  Even today; almost 17 years later...  There are better ways out there to help our children.  It is all of our responsibilities to discover what they are.  Please.
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« Reply #249 on: March 09, 2005, 12:00:00 PM »
after reading an article of this school i was very shocked i never thought that this was possible in the us.  especially to young children!!!  THEY MUST SHUT ALL SCHOOLS SIMILAR TO THIS ONE DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #250 on: March 09, 2005, 12:14:00 PM »
Thats thuh prollem with these progrumz. They jus' don't know how to do it RIGHT! Send yer kids t' ME, The Turd of Wisdumb, and I GARANTEE yuh that I'll get 'em staitened out fer yuh and the only injurees that dey will git are RED ASSES from me whippin' 'em! Dey will eat well and won't git beaten  up like that. But I WILL whip thuh LIVIN' HELL out of 'em! :flame:
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« Reply #251 on: March 09, 2005, 09:07:00 PM »
YOU ARE A JERK TERDMAN...... :flame:
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« Reply #252 on: March 09, 2005, 10:06:00 PM »
Well if gittin' kidz STRATE makes me a JERK, then I guess I'm one HELL of a JERK!! :flame:
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« Reply #253 on: March 11, 2005, 07:33:00 PM »
No one can make someone get strait.  I went to an AA meeting with my daughter once while in Utah. This man with 7 years of sobriety got up and said something that I'll never forget. He said, "I have good news and bad news.  The good news is that there is a cure for alcoholism. The bad news is that YOU are the cure."  

The old saying, "You can lead a horse to water - but you can't make him drink" applies to all reform and rehabilitation.  A person must have the desire to change their lives for the better.  All the isolation and torture can't change one person.  I think the parable of the Wind and the Sun applies.  The Wind challenged the Sun - saying I can get that man to take off his coat quicker than you.  The wind blew hard and the man grabbed his coat. The harder the wind blew the tighter and stronger his grasp.  The wind finally gave up.  The gentle sun shined on the man and continued to warm him.  Within minutes the man took off his coat.

Sometimes gentle persuasion works better than force.  A person will not change until they want to change. :smile:

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« Reply #254 on: March 14, 2005, 01:07:00 PM »
provo canyon school was a never-ending game played within the gates of hell. I spent 2 years of my life getting abused physically and mentally by staff that worked there. many simple rights were taken there like being able to use the restroom when you need to. i underwent severe punishment in a constant mind-trap. i recall one night at about 1:00 in the morning i was forced to sit indian style and stare directly at a wall in the snow while it was snowing   in my boxers for 2 and a half hours. another time i laughed once when everybody had just gotten into bed and i was grabbed from behind from a staff by the neck and arm where my face was smashed into the wall and then dragged 15 feet to a confinement cell. my friend tried to stop them but they "P.I." him which stands for a physical intervention. they dragged me into the back holding cell and through me into the wall. i sat in that sell from 10:00 that night until 9:30 the next morning in my boxers with the confinement door shut with the cold air-conditioning turned up all the way. i sat on the cold cement floor  until 9:30 in the morning until i was given a small paper cup with water to take a muscle control pill that doesn?t allow you to move your body, and if you do move your body you got really bad cramps and spasms. Around 4:00 that day i was finally given food  but it was hard to eat because i had extreme rib cramps from being slammed into the wall. the nurse came to inspect my ribs and said that there was nothing wrong and i was just complaining to get attention. my ribs were bruised pretty bad because the next day my ribs  had a big bruise mark going across them. i asked to see the nurse but they refused to look at my ribs so i asked the "senior-on" which is pretty much the person that is in control of the entire facility that day. the nurse told him not to worry about my complaint because i was just trying to get attention. i went through hundreds of mental trapping mind games that fled my mind with constant depression. it got so bad at !

points that a level of insanity was closely reached. one of my friends got pushed to the limit and one day they found him, they kicked down the bathroom door where they found him in a large thick puddle of blood. he had locked himself in the bathroom, broke the mirror and slit his wrists going with the vain. he then stuck the piece of glass up into his neck in two places. i guess evidently he was trying to slit his own throat. they found him spasing and shaking because he had lost so much blood. he had spent nearly 3 and a half years in this place before he decided that he couldn't take it anymore and he needed to escape. stuff like this happens everyday in this place where it is just ignored as if nothing has happened. some cases are even worse then what i have mentioned today. a girl about 6 years before i went there was found in the shower where she hung herself. she died and no justice was done nothing was even looked into they just told her parents that she was severely mentally unstable and nothing was ever done about it to this day. this place doesn't help you it just creates so many problems and instabilities once you get out that you are set up for instant failure. i have ran into several people on the streets that i knew when i was in there and they where just there for talking back to their parents, minor school absences, and occasionally smoking pot they turned into crackheads and severally emotionally disturbed. the question is how long is a place like this going to go on for until something is done about it?.... where is this society taking us?....do we really want are children and loved ones heading in this direction?....u choose which direction you want your child to go in...but this is just the spoken words of truth from someone that has gone through this experience and wants to let you know what really goes on behind those never-ending locked doors....

Jason
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