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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on March 07, 2005, 06:14:00 PM
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I think it would be helpful if we all helped gather info such as links, news articles, and testimonies that could be added to a media kit that we can all send out to relevant media orgs and local governments to spread the word.
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Here are some WWASP references:
WWASP
Day 1 (http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/desperate/site-desperate/mpg2-desperate.shtml) / Day 3 (http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/desperate/site-desperate/day3/3front-pg.shtml) / IntrepidNet Reporters (http://www.intrepidnetreporters.com)
Schools Of Hard Knocks (http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/02/cov_23feature.html)
Boot Camps For Wayward Youths Offer Hope, Help, Hell (http://www.rickross.com/reference/teenboot/teenboot1.html)
A Parent's True Story - Deception, Misrepresentation & Fraud (http://www.helpyourteens.com/true_story.html)
Too-Tough Love? (Forbes Magazine) (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0322/6306112a_print.html)
Does WWASPS Create Family Unity? (http://www.morningrooster.com/printdetail.cfm?RecordID=109)
Parents To Sue Association (http://www.ticotimes.net/archive/06_26_03_2.htm)
Problems Plaguing Program For Youths (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595056833,00.html)
Inside Edition (http://www.isaccorp.org/documentsnz.html#wwasp)
Investigation shows troubled school may be buying interest with lawmakers (http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=34937&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)
Megan And The "Starving Girl" (http://www.nospank.net/n-c23.htm)
Lay Down The Rules For Tranquility Bay (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/html/20010813t200000-0500_12622_obs_lay_down_the_rules_for_tranquility_bay.asp)
Tranquillity Bay's American student died from head injuries (http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20010816/cornwall/cornwall4.html)
See 'Troubled Teens' Website (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/letters/html/20010831t210000-0500_13455_obs_see__troubled_teens__website.asp)
Disturbing Testimony About Tranquility Bay (edited but quick download) (http://bayes.joshpurinton.com/~joshp/tranquility-bay-testimony.html)
Family Wins Fight To Remove Teen From Tranquility Bay (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/magazines/teenage/html/20021230t200000-0500_37366_obs_family_wins_fight_to_remove_teen_from_tranquility_bay.asp)
Jamaica No Problem, Says Tranquility Bay (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20030608t010000-0500_44824_obs_jamaica_no_problem__says_tranquility_bay.asp)
The Last Resort (http://education.guardian.co.uk/classroomviolence/story/0,12388,987932,00.html)
Petition to Close Tranquility Bay (http://www.petitiononline.com/4621/petition.html)
Locked in Paradise (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4061595.stm)
Horror At Casa By The Sea (http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/teencamps/casa-by-the-sea-story.html)
Sadness of Casa by the Sea (http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/teencamps/casa-sadness.html)
I am afraid I am going to be beat (http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/teencamps/casa-afraid-of-beating.html)
Casa the humiliation, the inhumanity (http://www.libertarianrock.com/topics/teencamps/casa-jen.html)
Reports Of Abuse Shut Down Boarding Schools (http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/3726169/detail.html)
Hundreds of teenagers return to U.S. after schools for troubled youth close in Mexico (http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=94105)
Boarding Schools Director Responds To Abuse Allegations (http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/news/3736092/detail.html)
Mexico Shuts Down Three "Youth Treatment" Centers, Deports Kids Back to US (http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/354/mexico.shtml)
Morava Academy
Morava Academy Heads Arrested Before (http://www.nospank.net/n-d77.htm)
CTK Czech News Agency, Praha (http://www.intrepidnetreporters.com/TeenHelp/ctk_czech_news_agency.htm)
Cross Creek Manor
The Defiant School (http://www.free-times.com/archive/coverstorarch/defiantschool.html)
Program to Help Youths Has Troubles of Its Own (http://www.rickross.com/reference/teenboot/teenboot33.html)
More Questions About 'Tough-Love' Program (http://www.ticotimes.net/archive/03_20_03_2.htm)
Owner Of Private Discipline Academy In Costa Rica Is Arrested (http://www.rickross.com/reference/teenboot/teenboot29.html)
Too-Tough Love? (Inside Costa Rica) (http://insidecostarica.com/specialreports/too_tough_love.htm)
Scandal Hits America's 'Dotheboys Hall' (http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/01/wdund01.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/06/01/ixworld.html)
Riots At Costa Rica School For Troubled Young Americans Raises Questions About Programs (http://insidecostarica.com/specialreports/dundee_ranch.htm)
Desperate steps, dark journey (http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/273168.asp)
Academy's grip lingers as son, family transform (http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/nov04/273497.asp)
Majestic Ranch
Boarding Schools Go Unchecked In Utah (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510033604,00.html)
State's oversight of school lambasted (http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2589739)
Group Seeks Probe Into Boading School (http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=154438)
Academy at Ivy Ridge
2 children's homes under investigation (http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0211/07/m02_1.html)
Children's Homes Under Investigation (http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?s=%20%201005732)
More Bethel Home Controversy (http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1316987)
Youth boot camps lose their kick (http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/07/21/3f1b767a4f6f8)
Bethel Operators Defend Themselves (http://www.corpun.com/usr00306.htm#11300)
Parents sue Bethel Boys Academy (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041103/NEWS01/411030359/1002)
Bethel Boys Academy changes name, focus as Eagle Point Christian (http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1108811723195320.xml)
Sheriff says girls moved from Bethel Home in Petal (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040520/NEWS01/40520030)
DHS releases information involving claims of abuse at girls home (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/8900459.htm)
Owner of Bethel Academy, state in talks to settle dispute (http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/9107322.htm)
Bethel failed two portions of inspection (http://www.nospank.net/n-m79r.htm)
Deputies investigating reports of runaways, abuse at Bethel Girls Academy (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050216/NEWS01/50216008)
Bethel Girls Academy temporarily closed (http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050218/NEWS01/502180350/1002/NEWS01)
Teen Escort Service Members Charged With Assault (http://news10now.com/content/all_news/?ArID=14770&SecID=83)
Torturing Teenagers For Fun And Profit (http://www.nospank.net/boot.htm)
Teen Busting (http://www.nospank.net/busting.htm)
Safe Choices for Troubled Teens (http://www.askquestions.org/articles/teens/)
Teen's lockdown called 'outrage' (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,595097547,00.html)
Senators join forces in crackdown on teen-help industry (http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2592226)
Wilderness Programs
Email from Cathy Sutton (http://www.nospank.net/n-d07.htm)
Caveat Emptorium (http://outside.away.com/outside/magazine/1095/10f_det1.html)
Breaking The Vow Of Secrecy (http://www.pianofinders.com/es/breakingthesecrecy.htm)
White Collar Cults, They Want Your Mind (http://www.rickross.com/reference/landmark/landmark23.html)
I Lost My Husband To A Cult (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/ilostmy.htm)
Intruding into the Workplace - An excerpt from the book Cults In Our Midst (http://www.factnet.org/Margaret_Thaler_Singer/Intruding_into_the_Workplace.html)
The LGAT Basic Experience (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/eldon.braun/awareness/lgat1.html)
Report Of The APA Task Force On Deceptive And Indirect Techniques Of Persuasion And Control