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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on April 03, 2006, 03:13:00 PM
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This info was posted in the Hidden Lake forum, but it may be of interest to others re: programs opening inmates mail.
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =41#185175 (http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?topic=14735&forum=41#185175)
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A little tidbit from Milonas v Williams The Case against Provo Canyon School. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. In former students action against private school for youths, with behavioral problems for its use of "behavioral-modification" program, allegedly violating section 1983, record supported finding that the schoolls use of polygraph machine, its monitoring and censoring of student mail, its use of isolation rooms and its use of excessive physcial force violated students' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. U.S.C.A Const. Amends. 1, 14; 42U.S.C.A. and 1983. Although this was a case where they decided Provo Canyon was operating under the "color of state law" HLA and others have taken in kids placed by school boards and the courts. Not a lawyer but I don't see why these amendments are not appicable even to a BM which doesn't accept these kids. Monitoring and Censoring any mail to parents is unconstitutional and cannot be waived by a contract.
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Can the Milonas v Williams ruling be accessed online?
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Yes it can. Try http://www.heal-online.org/provocases.htm (http://www.heal-online.org/provocases.htm) If that fails try The Case Against Provo Canyon School This apparently is a HEAL link. The one bad part of the ruling is that this circuit feels the eight amendment only applies to people who have been convicted of a crime. But the fact that they upheld the constitutional rights of children to first and 14th amendment protection, and they are such a conservative circuit is good news. Best of luck.
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Thanks. I knew I'd read it somewhere. Doesn't turn up in google search.
Actually, it does. Must have had the wrong spelling.
[ This Message was edited by: Deborah on 2006-04-04 10:26 ]
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I just checked it the MSN search. It comes up under The Cases Against Provo Canyon School.