Dr. Newton you are one sick mother......you should be ASHAMED of your behavior and never be around children again..you are a danger to society. Check this out folks:
$traight, Inc. and the clinicians
by Wesley Fager (c) 2000
Straight was mostly staffed by unpaid kids further along in their treatment. They were used to control, restrain, supervise, and elicit confessions from newcomers. Many kids who graduated the program stay on as paid (minimum wage or less) junior staff. With tenure, and more education, some of these eventually become senior staff. Senior staff are adult personnel with some level of college education in various fields. By 1983 Straight was the largest provider of drug abuse treatment for juveniles in the nation. Straight's claim to professionalism or quality clinical treatment is, at best, disingenuous, in at least one case, allegedly, criminally fraudulent. But that is not to say that it was benign or ineffectual. Indeed, Straight has had profound effects on individual clients and their families. If there is a walking personification of The Program, it's Father Doctor Virgil Miller Newton, so let's start with him.
Father Doctor V. Miller Newton. In 1976 while he was chairman of the board of a private boy?s prison in Florida, Miller Newton made his second unsuccessful bid for Congress. His father, Red Miller, was editor for the influential Tampa Tribune. His former business partner was the chief-of-staff for former Governor of Florida (later U.S. Senator) Bob Graham. In 1979 Newton had been just another parent at Straight with virtually no experience or education in clinical drug rehabilitation. That year, perhaps in anticipation of a job offer from Straight, he attended a workshop on alcoholism. In January 1980 with virtually no other clinical experience than that seminar, he joined Straight as an assistant director. And before the year was out he was conducting intake interviews. One of these was the intake interview of Michael Calabrese. Michael had been told he was going to a sibling interview in 1980 as a prerequisite to seeing his brother from a distance at an Open Meeting. Mr Calabrese claims his sibling interview turned into a high pressure intake interview from which he was not allowed to leave until he admitted himself into Straight. He says he got into a shouting match with Miller Newton during the intake. Father Doctor Miller Newton quickly became Straight's national clinical director. Since the Straights are involved in brainwashing, and since brainwashing is an experimental science in the Western world, Father Newton will be mentioned under both medical researchers at Straight and under clinicians as he was the national clinical director. Click here for the story of the notorious Doctor Miller Newton both at Straight and at his own KIDS' program in New Jersey.
