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Title: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on November 07, 2010, 04:25:41 PM
supposed to have been a "tough love" program in PA. Back in the seventies? Forest County? PA. or so Ive been told.
Title: Abraxas
Post by: Inculcated on November 07, 2010, 10:38:14 PM
They're that and then some now...

Abraxas: another Synanon spawn that according to the paper quoted and linked below relies heavily on remand placements. Their reach has extended well beyond their PA origins.
Ursus once mentioned, the woman who formed Abraxas (http://http://www.abraxasyfs.com/) came out of Gateway. Like how Joe Ricci came through Daytop and then formed Élan. Like how David Deitch came off of the Narcotic Farm and sought out Synanon (from where he was reportedly “expelled from”) and then (with Casriel) brought that same indelible influence to Judge Bassin and Monsignor O’Brien’s Daytop Village…and after he was ousted (for of all things being a bit too culty)…he then went on with Phoenix house (‘didn’t stop there though) and then well that was a rocky marriage, but ultimately they reconciled…for the sake of the offspring I suppose. I digress...

From page 170 of Compulsory Treatment of Drug Abuse Research and Clinical Practice (http://http://archives.drugabuse.gov/pdf/monographs/86.pdf)(numbered 163 and 164)
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“Adolescent Legal Referrals
Among admissions to drug-free treatment, younger clients are more likely to be legally referred than adults. For example, nearly half of all male adolescent admissions to residential and outpatient programs
in the TOPS survey were legally referred (Hubbard et al. 1984).
At Phoenix House, approximately 40 percent of the adolescent admissions are legally referred, compared with less than 20 percent of adult clients. Indeed, there are TCs that serve legally referred adolescents almost exclusively, e.g., Abraxas in Pennsylvania. Findings are unclear for post-treatment outcomes of legally referred adolescent substance abusers.
Additionally:

Reported in a related article as a "California company", Cornell Corrections of California, which also does business as Abraxas Youth and Family Services sued the State of Utah after losing out on a multi-million dollar contract to Cornerstone Programs Corp

Related to Cornell Abraxas we have:
Quote
September 29, 2005 Baltimore Sun
Two Maryland judges said yesterday that the Ehrlich administration's decision to close the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School without a clear plan to replace it is jeopardizing the welfare of youths and putting public safety at risk. Baltimore County Circuit Judge Kathleen Cox and Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Pamela North told legislators that with Hickey preparing to close, there are not enough places to send tough young offenders who need to be removed from their homes to protect their safety and the community. The department said some Maryland youths will be sent to programs in Texas, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio with rates ranging from $47,450 to $116,800 per child per year. The list includes three facilities run by a for-profit Texas-based company that, according to published reports, was forced to close one of its centers amid complaints of abuse. Under pressure from Pennsylvania authorities, a company operating as Cornell Abraxas closed its New Morgan Academy near Reading in 2002 after about a dozen children were sexually assaulted by adults over the span of less than two years, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The same company runs programs that the Department of Juveniles Services plans to use in Shelby, Ohio; Marienville, Pa.; and South Mountain, Pa., according to a list provided to legislators yesterday. Another facility on the list has had a more recent, but less severe, incident of violence. The Summit Academy reform school in Herman, Pa., has said that four workers were fired in July over a June 18 incident in which a 17-year-old male student suffered cuts to his face and ear. http://www.privateci.org/maryland.htm (http://www.privateci.org/maryland.htm)

Topix reports: "Two riots break out at Abraxas school" see also (http://http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=227251)
More than a dozen juveniles are involved in incidents Monday and Tuesday. More than a dozen juveniles were involved in separate riots that broke out this week at Cornell Abraxas I in Marienville
22 comments on topix here (http://http://www.topix.com/forum/county/forest-pa/TCFKU0HPB018RRLAH)

And from Abraxas Youth and Family Services in Texas we have:
Youth worker reportedly spent weekend having sex with teen (http://http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Update-Youth-worker-reportedly-spent-weekend/SjQH0drV0kmRtAFwgQ0I0Q.cspx)
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: mlg81 on November 11, 2010, 02:44:40 AM
I worked at Abraxas for approximately three weeks, and what I saw was horrible.
The one I was at was the one in Pittsburgh.  Its for Adolescent females. Most of the girls are from Philly.  Alot of stuff going on with them.  Anyways, the girls had to ask for everything.  We couldnt talk to them unless they put a piece of paper outside the door.  Therapy was a joke.  No one got one on one time with counselors.  It was just horrible.   I saw at least 3 restraints being done every day.  Some girl broke her leg.  I actually got in trouble for NOT RESTRAINING a girl.  I would just talk and bullshit with them and they would listen.    Most of my girls were so damaged already that they were just crazy.  Abraxas messes them up even more.  It was so bad I would cry everyday before work.  I finally quit.  I wanted to help those girls but it was impossible to do in that hellhole.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Oscar on November 11, 2010, 05:31:54 AM
Unfortunately we are not that far with the datasheet on the wiki (http://http://wiki.fornits.com/index.php?title=Abraxas_Youth_%26_Family_Services).

We are in the process of doing some archive search on Google, so the article can expended and possible some of their departments can earn their own datasheet in due time. It will take some time.
Title: Arlene Lissner: Gateway -> Abraxas -> Cornell Corrections
Post by: Ursus on November 11, 2010, 11:35:14 AM
Quote from: "Inculcated"
Ursus once mentioned, the woman who formed Abraxas (http://http://www.abraxasyfs.com/) came out of Gateway. Like how Joe Ricci came through Daytop and then formed Élan. Like how David Deitch came off of the Narcotic Farm and sought out Synanon (from where he was reportedly "expelled from") and then (with Casriel) brought that same indelible influence to Judge Bassin and Monsignor O'Brien's Daytop Village…and after he was ousted (for of all things being a bit too culty)…he then went on with Phoenix house ('didn’t stop there though) and then well that was a rocky marriage, but ultimately they reconciled…for the sake of the offspring I suppose. I digress...
Her name is Arlene Lissner and yes, she did have a fair amount to do with the addiction treatment TC Gateway Foundation (orig. Gateway Houses Foundation c. 1968). Incidentally, David Deitch also helped set this TC up, right around the same time as when he did his magic for Daytop Village and Phoenix House.

Although I believe Lissner's first exposure to Gateway may have been as a client, she was soon enough serving the government of Illinois in some professional capacity, i.e., one having to do with drug abuse treatment and/or administration.

In case it wasn't clear, Gateway is located in Illinois, but they have projects/programs in other states as well. They run the Texas prison program (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=25502) that wdtony likens to Straight, Inc.

Briefly, Lissner founded Abraxas in Marienville, PA in 1973. It was a small drug abuse treatment TC, dedicated to the addiction treatment of juveniles, but perhaps not exclusively. I think they had 30 residents in the beginning. They were absorbed by Cornell Corrections, Inc., at Lissner's initiative, shortly after the Welfare Reform Act was pushed through during Clinton's term in the latter half of 1996. This Act made economic survival real difficult for some private non-profit social services programs.

Lissner courted a deal which enabled her program to continue operations, semi-autonomously, within the larger framework of the for-profit corrections corporation. She also started a small research foundation which she still heads, at least as of a few years ago, which is also somehow connected to Cornell Corrections, Inc.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Antigen on November 11, 2010, 01:43:00 PM
I know two graduates right around my age, so late 70's alum. Both of them are a couple of fucked up cup cakes. Other than that I don't know too much about it. My old next door neighbor used to be a social worker for CYS. I once asked her if she knew anything about it and she just got scared and clammed up. Promised to have that conversation at a later date but I've lost touch w/ her these days.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on November 11, 2010, 07:45:35 PM
somebody I talk to on my end went to college with a guy who worked briefly at abrxas in the 70's. He said the program in those days was in the fucking middle of nowhere,and was some abysmal,hopless shit at best. He also speculated that there was more to the story there than face value,said the very buildings radiated dread,and ugliness. I know what he means.
Title: Gateway Foundation
Post by: Ursus on November 12, 2010, 03:57:00 PM
Here's a snippet from an article in Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior (2001, pp 1134-1140) titled, "TREATMENT PROGRAMS, CENTERS, AND ORGANIZATIONS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M4QOQ8/)," by Alfonso Acampora, Arlene R. Lissner, Daniel S. Heit, David A. Deitch, David E. Smith, David J. Mactas, Ethan Nebelkopf, Faith K. Jaffe, J. Clark Laudergan, Jane Velez, Jerome F. X. Carroll, Jerome H. Jaffe, John Newmeyer, Kevin Mceneaney, Richard B. Seymour, Robin Solit, Ronald R. Watson, Shirley Coletti, and Sidney Shankman:


GATEWAY FOUNDATION

In 1968, Gateway Houses Foundation was incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation and became the first THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY in Illinois. Modeled on DAYTOP VILLAGE, it was established as a residential setting in which former drug addicts could help other drug abusers find a way to live drug-free, useful lives in the community.

The early years of treatment experience demonstrated that not all of those entering Gateway needed long-term residential treatment. Programs were devised or modified to fit the specific needs of the individuals served. The agency adopted the name Gateway Foundation in 1983 to better symbolize the services offered. To extended care (residential, long-term treatment), Gateway added outpatient (both intensive and basic), detoxification, and short-term treatment, as well as community-based EDUCATION and PREVENTION PROGRAMS.

The therapeutic community remains the core of Gateway's programs. Participation in TWELVE-STEP support groups are the client's mainstay during and after treatment. Gateway Foundation's successful treatment center within the Correctional Center of Cook County (the largest U.S. county jail) resulted in treatment programs for inmates in other Illinois and Texas correctional programs. Treatment for all Gateway clients includes work and social-skills development, continuing education, and employment counseling.


Copyright © 2006, The Gale Group, Inc.[/list]
Title: Abraxas
Post by: Ursus on November 12, 2010, 04:02:30 PM
Here's another snippet from that same article in Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior (2001, pp 1134-1140) titled, "TREATMENT PROGRAMS, CENTERS, AND ORGANIZATIONS: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000M4QOQ8/)," by Alfonso Acampora, Arlene R. Lissner, Daniel S. Heit, David A. Deitch, David E. Smith, David J. Mactas, Ethan Nebelkopf, Faith K. Jaffe, J. Clark Laudergan, Jane Velez, Jerome F. X. Carroll, Jerome H. Jaffe, John Newmeyer, Kevin Mceneaney, Richard B. Seymour, Robin Solit, Ronald R. Watson, Shirley Coletti, and Sidney Shankman:


ABRAXAS

The Abraxas Foundation was started in Pennsylvania in 1973, in response to Requests for Proposals (RFP) from the Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Abraxas's founder, Arlene Lissner, had been the deputy clinical director for the State of Illinois drug-abuse treatment system. There were two mandates to the RFP: (1) that a drug-treatment program be devised to directly serve the juvenile and adult justice system, and (2) that the program would utilize a then-abandoned U.S. forest-service camp, Camp Blue Jay, within the Allegheny National Forest. The original proposal stressed the development of a comprehensive program incorporating intensive treatment, education, and, of particular importance, a continuum of care to assist residents to reenter through regional reentry facilities. After an initial attempt to use only a behavioral approach, a THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY (TC) model was implemented.

By 1988, all Abraxas facilities had focused their target populations solely on adolescents and had become gender specific. For example, Abraxas V in Pittsburgh was developed as an all-female residential facility. In 1990, an intensive project known as Non-Residential Care was developed to provide community-based transitional services to youngsters returning to Philadelphia after placement in state institutions. The success of this project led to its expansion to Pittsburgh. Inspired by the Non-Residential Care model, Supervised Home Services was developed later that year as a nonresidential reentry service for youngsters returning to Philadelphia from Abraxas's residential programs.

Education has been an integral part of the philosophy of treatment since Abraxas's inception. The Abraxas School, a private high school on the Abraxas I treatment campus, offers a full curriculum of courses and special educational services for the resident population. Alternative schools have been developed in Erie and Pittsburgh in recognition of the tremendous difficulty troubled adolescents have returning to public high schools. Abraxas has also extended its programming to include families of origin: The Abraxas Family Association meets in chapters throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia to offer education, group counseling, intervention, and referral work to the families of clients.


Copyright © 2006, The Gale Group, Inc.[/list]
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on November 12, 2010, 04:25:13 PM
Holy batshit,batman........mebbee they need a fora? :eek:
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: mlg81 on November 13, 2010, 01:23:30 AM
Education has been an integral part of the philosophy of treatment since Abraxas's inception. The Abraxas School, a private high school on the Abraxas I treatment campus, offers a full curriculum of courses and special educational services for the resident population. Alternative schools have been developed in Erie and Pittsburgh in recognition of the tremendous difficulty troubled adolescents have returning to public high schools. Abraxas has also extended its programming to include families of origin: The Abraxas Family Association meets in chapters throughout Pennsylvania and West Virginia to offer education, group counseling, intervention, and referral work to the families of clients.


BULLSHIT!  The school is a joke.  They made us sit outside of the classrooms just in case the girls got out of hand. the Alternative school was shut down in Pittsburgh because it was horrible.  Cornell also just got bought by the GEO group, which is second largest for profit prison system.  Listen, ACAF in Pittsburgh isnt even working on a full liscense. They are supposed to be able to house 90 girls.  They are only allowed 45 now.  I will help create a fornits page.  Let me know what I can do!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Oscar on November 13, 2010, 08:06:29 AM
Quote from: "mlg81"
I will help create a fornits page.  Let me know what I can do!!!!!!!!

1) Google all references - use archivesearch (http://http://www.google.com/archivesearch) if necessary. Whenever a newspaper have something to report, we have to put it on as reference. Put them on this thread or in a blog and pm me.

2) Write a blog and pm me with the link. It can be your story, it can be an essay over some news brought in a local newspaper, which is offline.

3) The talk page can also me used. The Wiki syntax can be quite something to handle, so if you are not familar we can add it if we get a link.
Title: Arlene Lissner: "Capturing the moving balance"
Post by: Ursus on November 16, 2010, 08:41:16 PM
From the above snippet (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=31633&p=386669#p386528) from Macmillan Reference USA's Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior (2001):

The Abraxas Foundation was started in Pennsylvania in 1973, in response to Requests for Proposals (RFP) from the Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Abraxas's founder, Arlene Lissner, had been the deputy clinical director for the State of Illinois drug-abuse treatment system. There were two mandates to the RFP: (1) that a drug-treatment program be devised to directly serve the juvenile and adult justice system, and (2) that the program would utilize a then-abandoned U.S. forest-service camp, Camp Blue Jay, within the Allegheny National Forest. The original proposal stressed the development of a comprehensive program incorporating intensive treatment, education, and, of particular importance, a continuum of care to assist residents to reenter through regional reentry facilities. After an initial attempt to use only a behavioral approach, a THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY (TC) model was implemented.[/list][/size]
Below is info re. an out-of-print "report" by Lissner published in 1974, in case anyone comes across it. I have to wonder whether this may, in fact, be publication of the above noted proposal submitted to the Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, or perhaps a progress report:


Capturing the moving balance, or the crosstown bust don't stop here no more (http://http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007306O0?ie=UTF8&tag=dataresearche-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0007306O0)

[Unknown Binding]
Arlene Lissner (Author)

Product Details
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Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on November 17, 2010, 12:34:26 PM
Im glad to have played a small part in this .These too,are our bretheren.They deserve to be heard,and their dead remembered.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Celyne on November 20, 2010, 12:28:23 PM
Hi:

I'm so glad to have found this post.

I did know that GEO bought Abraxas  but just found online that Cubic Corp bought Abraxas, (from GEO?) if this is the same Abraxas that runs the juvenile facilities? Maybe it's a different Abraxas Corp? I believe Cubic is one of the leading manufacturers of military weapons. I have to research this more....

FYI: This posted 4 days ago on the WEB:

"Cubic Corp. (CUB) has agreed to pay $124 million for Abraxas Corp., a provider of risk mitigation and expertise for national-security, law-enforcement and homeland-security clients."

I am new here and should introduce myself. I am a mother of a young child in the Philadelphia, Pa. schools, a freelance writer/independent journalist, deeply concerned about education and our young people. I am interested in writing a fair and balanced article about the Abraxas facilities in the Philadelphia area in the hopes of informing the public about what goes on in them and to spark a local dialogue about whether these facilities are helping our youth or not. If anyone has experience on any level with the Philadelphia area facilities (also the Philadelphia Alternative Elementary School program) I would be very interested in speaking with you. I assure you, if you so desire, to keep your identity confidential, and will only make public information that you feel comfortable sharing. As I said I only want to write about this subject out of my concern and not to profit from anyone else's good or bad experiences. If there are problems with these facilities it is important for us to air this information so that our children won't be harmed any more. If there are problems in these facilities we can help fix them, and if I find that everything is above board then that's what I will report.

Thanks, Celyne
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Ursus on November 20, 2010, 01:06:28 PM
Thanks for this information, Celyne. As noted in my post (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=31633#p386442) above, Abraxas has been owned by Cornell Corrections, Inc. for some time. When I visited Cornell's website (http://http://www.cornellcompanies.com/) just now, to check on the state of affairs, I was redirected to GEO's website. Apparently The GEO Group, Inc. bought out Cornell just a couple of months ago.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Ursus on November 20, 2010, 06:37:23 PM
Quote from: "Celyne"
I did know that GEO bought Abraxas  but just found online that Cubic Corp bought Abraxas, (from GEO?) if this is the same Abraxas that runs the juvenile facilities? Maybe it's a different Abraxas Corp? I believe Cubic is one of the leading manufacturers of military weapons. I have to research this more....

FYI: This posted 4 days ago on the WEB:

"Cubic Corp. (CUB) has agreed to pay $124 million for Abraxas Corp., a provider of risk mitigation and expertise for national-security, law-enforcement and homeland-security clients."
As for Abraxis... it appears that the above-mentioned Abraxas Corp. is a different Abraxas, specifically one that is located in Virginia and which has significant ties to and involvement in "support services" for the CIA, according to this blog entry (http://http://constantpated.blogspot.com/2006/09/abraxas-corp-allegedly-engaged-in-war.html). Fwiw, they also do not seem to have any personnel in common.

Their website: http://www.abraxascorp.com/ (http://www.abraxascorp.com/)

Some press releases and news pieces which confirm that it is indeed the Virginia-based Abraxis Corp. which is in the process of being acquired by Cubis Corp.:

Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Celyne on November 22, 2010, 12:40:14 PM
Hi:

Thanks for clearing that up.

When I first came across the article of Cubic buying Abraxas, it appeared to be a logical progression. GEO, as a provider of alternative elementary school programs for our urban poor is worrisome enough. Their track record including their contract with housing immigrants at Guantanamo is not assuring.

Apparantly the Philadelphia School District had a plan in 2008 to cut out of sending their students to for profit/independent facilities, but appear to have done little toward this agenda. Studies are continually coming out pointing to the fact that children in these programs rarely get out of them and onto productive paths. The actual accountability of these programs is murky at best. The process for sending the children to these alternative schools is also questionable. This is what I have been able to research so far. I am in the process of getting in touch with various groups that work within these organizations and those who are independent watchdogs of them. Any leads you could provide would be helpful.

Thanks,
Celyne
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Celyne on November 22, 2010, 01:06:48 PM
Also, actually, Cornell and GEO merged see http://http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100419006086/en/GEO-Group-Cornell-Companies-Announce-685-Million for this:

The GEO Group and Cornell Companies Announce $685 Million Merger
Creates $1.5 Billion Revenue Diversified Provider of Essential Government Services
Combined Company Well Positioned to Capitalize on Growing Global Demand for Correctional, Detention and Behavioral Health Services

Also found this an interesting statement from Cornell Co.'s 2009 Annual Report:

Our smallest division, Abraxas Youth & Family Services, faced particular challenges during 2009 due to budget cuts across the country, and in particular with our two largest markets: Pennsylvania and Illinois. This created intense pressure on all providers of juvenile justice and substance abuse treatment programs.
 
These pressures compelled us to reconfigure programs and consolidate capacity at several smaller facilities. Perhaps the one bright spot in this segment is that our unrelenting focus on operating quality has enabled us to increase market share from less resilient competitors who have either exited the market or “cut corners” as they try to survive.

 Though Abraxas did not achieve the goals that we established at the beginning of the year, we did make progress as demonstrated by increasing average contract occupancy over 2009 to 85.9% from 80.6% during 2008. Also, despite the funding cuts, average residential per diems increased by approximately 3% which illustrates our ability to shift our programs to a more attractive mix. We finished 2009 with many empty beds in this segment, but for 2010 we expect to continue to gradually increase occupancy and favorable mix so that the division can continue to generate cash for Cornell, despite the continuing budget pressures facing the segment.

Read more: http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/100430/ ... z162D6z4Oc (http://www.faqs.org/sec-filings/100430/CORNELL-COMPANIES-INC_8-K/a10-8925_2ex99d1.htm#ixzz162D6z4Oc)


I guess I'm just green and naive to this topic, but shouldn't the goal of these facilities be to get the residents out and on their feet, not to increase occupancy? (I know: this was written for shareholders, who are interested in their dollar return not in the societal implications of their investments). Still, there is an apparent conflict of interest here.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on November 22, 2010, 04:25:40 PM
What a bona-fide fucking monster THAT will become. Like some thing out of a bad orwellian/kafka-esque sci-fi movie. The potential for massive abuse is epic, fucking biblical. People need to know.
Title: Re: Arlene Lissner: Gateway -> Abraxas -> Cornell Correction
Post by: Ursus on November 30, 2010, 09:48:27 PM
Quote from: "Ursus"
Briefly, Lissner founded Abraxas in Marienville, PA in 1973. It was a small drug abuse treatment TC, dedicated to the addiction treatment of juveniles, but perhaps not exclusively. I think they had 30 residents in the beginning. They were absorbed by Cornell Corrections, Inc., at Lissner's initiative, shortly after the Welfare Reform Act was pushed through during Clinton's term in the latter half of 1996. This Act made economic survival real difficult for some private non-profit social services programs.

Lissner courted a deal which enabled her program to continue operations, semi-autonomously, within the larger framework of the for-profit corrections corporation. She also started a small research foundation which she still heads, at least as of a few years ago, which is also somehow connected to Cornell Corrections, Inc.
The full formal name for that Welfare Reform Act is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. It had and continues to have a huge impact on the availability and delivery of certain social services, which includes the treatment and rehab of court ordered adolescents, which I believe is Abraxas' mainstay.

Excerpt from a keynote address given by Edward Skloot at the annual meeting of the California Association of Nonprofits, Oakland, CA, in October 1999, and subsequently published (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=32016&p=387759#p387759) in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly the following year:

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Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: Pile of Dead Kids on December 01, 2010, 02:50:23 AM
I can't imagine how this could encourage shit like what happened with those Wilkes-Barre judges.
Title: Re: anybody ever hear of Abraxas?
Post by: seamus on January 30, 2011, 06:35:14 AM
Quote from: "seamus"
What a bona-fide fucking monster THAT will become. Like some thing out of a bad orwellian/kafka-esque sci-fi movie. The potential for massive abuse is epic, fucking biblical. People need to know.
O K  what parent in their right mind is gonna send a kid to a rtc whos parent company runs a facility(parnered/contracted to I.n.s. ,and homeland security no less) in friggin Gitmo? wtf?http://www.abraxasyfs.com :jawdrop:


and lets not forget,GEO is really WACKENHUT,same private prison ownin' bastards.got caught on tape,beatin the hell out of inmates,just a few years ago. :nods: