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« Reply #195 on: September 06, 2004, 02:58:00 PM »
I am a survivor of Cross Creek Manor in Southern Utah - I was locked up for 18 months (1997 - 1999). It's been 5 years since I was released from Cross Creek and I'm still fighting an uphill battle with depression, anxiety & crippling self-doubt. I will do anything and everything to help shut these places down.
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« Reply #196 on: September 13, 2004, 09:37:00 AM »
I was staff at Turn-About Ranch in Escalante and filed a pretty heavy sexual abuse report with the case closed by the Sheriff's Office, Child Protective Services, and the State Licensor within a week.  Actually CPS investigated all of one day.

The Turn-About Director is related to the CPS lady, the sexual offender is a police informant, and the State Licensor's husband works at a different Aspen Education facility.  

Oh, the tangled webs we weave.

All of these facilities are just about BIG BUCKS.  Some of the staff may care for the kids, but the corporate offices do not.  It's time to close them all down.
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« Reply #197 on: September 13, 2004, 10:37:00 AM »
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On 2004-09-06 11:58:00, Anonymous wrote:

"I am a survivor of Cross Creek Manor in Southern Utah - I was locked up for 18 months (1997 - 1999). It's been 5 years since I was released from Cross Creek and I'm still fighting an uphill battle with depression, anxiety & crippling self-doubt. I will do anything and everything to help shut these places down.

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I hope you do well with your mental illness.  I've been living with mine since I was 5, diagnosed and treated since I was 25.  With a strong course of therapy to start and maintenance medication ongoing, I live a basically normal life.  Not perfectly normal, but as normal as the life of a treated diabetic or epileptic.  (I'm bipolar II.)

I'm happy and have a good life.

I hope for the same for you.

I've found one of the Yahoo support groups very helpful.  They have a bunch that are dx specific.  It's free.  Some groups are restricted to people who have that diagnosis, and have rules that make the group a safe, confidential place you can trust.

The people in my group really help when things come up that are hard to cope with.

I hope this information helps.

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« Reply #198 on: September 17, 2004, 12:14:00 AM »
was in pcs in the early 80?s, very controlled  environment, ruthless, and they are the ones lying and manipulating, you cannot change a person  by  controlling them and  putting them in  isolation, and standing ips for goodness sake, I am now in my 30?s and have lower back pain, and trust issues, how can you trust  when people take advantage and lie to you, and leave you alone  for so long, it was insane the confusion and feelings of hate and anger they aroused ,they didn?t help, they harmed , and  it should be stopped.  I have never been able to talk about this to my parents, and I still remember walking down that hall and not knowing that was happening, as they  surely manipulated my mom as she sat there staring at me as I left, I cannot remember when I saw her, but the phone calls were  monitored and all that I have read is true , although I did not witness severe physical abuse, but harsh treatment , the steroid men throwing you down on the floor, like we can hurt them anyway, and the isolation and the cries, I cried for a year, what my mom was told is it is manipulation,it was all terrible, and it has got to stop!!!!
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« Reply #199 on: September 21, 2004, 06:32:00 PM »
I was placed in PCS in April, 1974 through December, 1975. I was there when Litchfield, Ron Garrett and Karr Farnsworth were counselors, or general staff there. I was one of the eight in the original class action suit after Milano vs. Rice. The original owner,Jack Williams, or, "Turtle", as we used to call him, was my freakin' therapist! Hell, he didn't have the credentials for that. He was a high school dropout! I was also the first student to be busted back to "orientation" by the polygraph. I was given 500 hours by a MACHINE, fer chrissakes! I had to stay awake at night telling myself that what they were doing was right and I was wrong until I convinced myself enough to pass the polygraph. I had to go once a week for my polygraph test even after I terminated. I witnessed so many atrocities while I was there that I might as well have served my time at a Nazi concentration camp. And yes, I know friends that died and offed themselves, rather than subject themselves to re-interrment. To all of you skeptics... everything these survivors are saying is TRUE. if you want documentation, it is in the Utah court archives, and you can get the case # on several of the links in posts above. It has been 30 years for me, and I still have no closure. I long to talk to my buddies I met and became friends with during my stay.I am so sorry to all of you interred after me for not pushing our case to it's rightful end; that being BANKRUPTING THOSE BASTARDS! It sickens me to think this MAD DOG has spawned its own SICK & FILTHY offspring, and that the likes of Litchfield and Farnsworth still profit from pain, torture, and manipulation. I am glad to see that despite all of the efforts of PCS and the rest to keep us apart and un-noticed, that there are forums such as these where we can band together and become one LOUD voice!
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« Reply #200 on: September 22, 2004, 03:35:00 AM »
I just read your story about the atrocities in 1975. Unfortunately many of the same people are still there and the WWASP programs are the offspring of Provo Canyon (it's where Lichfield and Farnsworth learned the ropes and went off to seek their own fortune in the teen-torture industry.  Best wishes to you and thanks for speaking out.

The sadist cannot stand the separation of the public and the private; nor can he grant to others the mystery of their personality, the validity of their inner self...in order for him to feel his maximum power, he wants the world to be peopled with concrete manipulatable objects...
-- ERNEST BECKER, The Structure of Evil, 1968.

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« Reply #201 on: September 26, 2004, 02:11:00 AM »
:eek:  :eek:  :eek:  :eek: My long time love and good friend went to Provo.  It fucked him up beyond any reasonable point. He had severe social problems after being released not to mention his lasting mental trauma. Nightmares, random panic and paranoia all regarding the school lasting up until even now (its been over 4 years). CLOSE THAT CHILD ABUSIVE NAZI CAMP DOWN NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #202 on: September 26, 2004, 03:14:00 AM »
I had a friend warn me that I was going to be set away.  I had no idea what he ment at first but he was dead serious!  my mother had talked to his mother about sending me to a therapeutic boarding school.  I still had no idea what he was talking about but what he said sure scared me.  He said that he was sent to PROVo where he wa thrown in a dark room with no clothes for days!  That was all that I needed to hear and I was scared!  There was more, but all of you probably heard it all already.  I give my support in shutting down provo & ALL therapeutic boarding schools like CEDU too!
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« Reply #203 on: October 03, 2004, 09:26:00 PM »
There are about 350 signatures so far. Keep signing the petition and get your friends and family to sign. Provo Canyon School is one of the largest and oldest programs.  The methods used at Provo Canyon are used in WWASP and other abusive programs.
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« Reply #204 on: October 14, 2004, 05:35:00 PM »
My friend Bixby attended Provo Canyon School in the early 1980s.  The horror stories he told me about how he was treated at the school stunned me, as I had grown up LDS and many of the staff there were also LDS (although Bixby is not).  I was embarrassed and humiliated to find out what was going there, under the auspices of "therapy" and "education".
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« Reply #205 on: October 18, 2004, 09:00:00 PM »
If you want to know what is going on at Provo show up their without telling them you are coming and wire yourself with a hidden video camera and an audio recording device and have some law enforcement there and demand to speak to the kids in solitary not just the puppets they trot out. Have the parents contacted while you are there watching them make the call and have them pick up the kids. Provo is just a scam so they can have lavish lifestyles at the expense of taken advantage of youth sent there by ignorant parents and paid off placement people. Parents who want to help their kids should put them in low cost group therapy with social workers not shrinks or emotional growth boarding schools especially not one that has former cedu staff like allgood and wasserman and  michael cruciano and  rudy benz who clone the abusive programs so they can cash in like the CULT LEADERS,  that is right all them cedu clones are cults, who taught them that their lifestyles come before your kids's mental health. Allgood and his associates PROJECT all over the place. if they say your kid is lying it means that they are lying to you.
 provo had a deal with cascade head michael allgood where he would send them kids and they would torture them so they would want to go back to cascade he sits on the board of these emotional growth newsletters with lon woodbury. there is a big network where they are all cover up for each other. they just say that the kid is lying and they deal with it all the time. Allgood came out of Cedu where he did the same thing. A real abusive psychopath mel wasserman and his sadistic son mark also ran cedu. wassermans were such good liars that could get many people to cover up for them by saying that the place helped them. usually with the making friends part. He conned michael landon so well and blew so much smoke up his ass that his dear little leslie landon matthews is a devoted wasserman believer and her book my father completely fails to tell the truth about what cedu really did to kids but hey mel is quite the conman and sociopath who believes that by abusing kids he is helping them If allgood and wasserman think they can control your kid they will hit you up for cash so they can live it up. they will tell you your kid is acting up and tell you they can send him to provo.  they will tell your kid this too to scare him into doing what they want.
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« Reply #206 on: October 18, 2004, 11:14:00 PM »
The authorities in Utah are jacked up. Do you honestly think that the police would escort someone to Provo. They love PCS - and like that fact that kids are locked up there. There are many children at PCS who are there at tax-payer expence.  What's incredible is that kids have less rights at PCS than they do in juvenile detention. In Utah - JD allows visitors three times per week and unmonitored phone calls daily. This just doesn't happen at PCS.

What needs to be done is this.  People need to do undercover work there. They need to get a job as an aide and then have a wireless video camera on their shirt (there are cameras that are as small as a button). They then need to present all of this evidence to the media.  Or someone needs to make a documentary about it.  The truth is - most people don't know what's going on - so there isn't enough public outrage to get change or legislation for that matter.  

More must be done before the authorities in this country will close places like Provo Canyon School.  

The most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of
knowledge among the people. No other sure foundation can be devised, for the preservation of freedom and happiness.

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« Reply #207 on: October 26, 2004, 06:34:00 PM »
According to Provo Canyon School, the proper receiving protocol for a 15-year-old girl who is suffering from a crystal meth addiction would be to first take off all of her clothes.  If she happens to be menstruating, it is important to remove her tampon. Is she refuses to do it; then you should knock her to the floor... NAKED... and have the nurse take it out.  Because God knows!  That girl is such a "Sick, scummy, inhumane little whimpering dog."  Much to their surprise; there was no meth launched above the bloody tampon.  I guess I couldn't fit a lighter and a pipe up my vagina to smoke it with before i left Hawaii; and therefore my drug smuggling was pointless.  

 

What kind of bullshit is that????

 

Oh!!! Don't forget!!! Depressed people LOVE being addressed by their last names as if in the military.  And all teenage girls can learn a lot for bitchy college students who snort cocaine while working the night shift.  

 

I graduated the program after two years.  Fair and square.  And within days of returning home I smokes an 8-ball and ended up in the hospital from a seizure and OD.  Effective treatment,
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« Reply #208 on: October 27, 2004, 01:01:00 AM »
I never cease to be amazed... I really do wonder why people think this is good treatment to hurt people. I guess "breaking down" to "build them up" is just drilled into their heads.

Necessity is the excuse for every infringement of human freedom.  It is the argument of the tyrant and the creed of the slave.  
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DannyB on the internet:I CALLED A LAWYER TODAY TO SEE IF I COULD SUE YOUR ASSES FOR DOING THIS BUT THAT WAS NOT POSSIBLE.

CCMGirl on program restraints: "DON\'T TAZ ME BRO!!!!!"

TheWho on program survivors: "From where I sit I see all the anit-program[sic] people doing all the complaining and crying."

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« Reply #209 on: October 27, 2004, 02:00:00 PM »
I went to Provo Canyon to be treated for depression. I was also stripped and searched. They said, "did your mom ever tell you how fat you are?"  They made me try on all of my clothes, touch my feet - bend over. Most of my things were sent home  and I was left with only two pants and about three tops. It didn't matter that much - within three days I was in "investment" to work off points for refusing to let them read my mail. They stripped me naked there too - by forse and gave me some bright orange sweats to wear - so that all would know I was a "trouble maker."  My make up was also taken away. I was abused, taken down, drugged, isolated. They refused to let me write grievances.  
It was truly a nightmare and no one should be "treated" for depression there. I will always remember how horrible I was treated.

Please sign the petition to close this place.  If any place should be closed it is Provo Canyon School..... :eek:  :eek:
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