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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Elan School => Topic started by: cherish wisdom on April 28, 2005, 01:59:00 AM
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About 500 former students-patients, their family members and human rights activists have signed a petition to close Provo Canyon School. The petition asks the authorities to shut down this facility that has a "history of torturing America's youth." Many have made comments about there abuse which includes, forced drugging, denial of necessary medical care, punishment with isolation and seclusion, sleep deprivation and other physical, emotional and psychological abuses. If you'd like to view the petition it can be found at:
http://www.beyondbusiness.net/closepcs.htm (http://www.beyondbusiness.net/closepcs.htm)
The signatures can be viewed at:
http://www.heal-online.org/sign.htm (http://www.heal-online.org/sign.htm)
This is the MOTHER OF ALL ABUSIVE PROGRAMS. If you think WWASPS is bad - this is where the founder of WWASPS - Robert Lichfield - learned the ropes of abusive behavior modification. He dropped out of college to be the Residential Director of Provo Canyon School. Of course he is now a mega-millionair as a result of his savy in the teen-industry. I call it the teen-torture-mindcult industry.
Please Sign if you have not done so What is this new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine or public housing, regards as heinous any challenge to what is called the system of private enterprise, identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete. The concept of loyalty as conformity is a false one. It is narrow and restrictive, denies freedom of thought and conscience... What do men know of loyalty who make a mockery of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights?
Henry Steele Commager, 1947
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provo canyon school was a never-ending game played within the gates of hell. I spent 2 years of my life getting abused physically and mentally by staff that worked there. many simple rights were taken there like being able to use the restroom when you need to. i underwent severe punishment in a constant mind-trap. i recall one night at about 1:00 in the morning i was forced to sit indian style and stare directly at a wall in the snow while it was snowing in my boxers for 2 and a half hours. another time i laughed once when everybody had just gotten into bed and i was grabbed from behind from a staff by the neck and arm where my face was smashed into the wall and then dragged 15 feet to a confinement cell. my friend tried to stop them but they "P.I." him which stands for a physical intervention. they dragged me into the back holding cell and through me into the wall. i sat in that sell from 10:00 that night until 9:30 the next morning in my boxers with the confinement door shut with the cold air-conditioning turned up all the way. i sat on the cold cement floor until 9:30 in the morning until i was given a small paper cup with water to take a muscle control pill that doesn?t allow you to move your body, and if you do move your body you got really bad cramps and spasms. Around 4:00 that day i was finally given food but it was hard to eat because i had extreme rib cramps from being slammed into the wall. the nurse came to inspect my ribs and said that there was nothing wrong and i was just complaining to get attention. my ribs were bruised pretty bad because the next day my ribs had a big bruise mark going across them. i asked to see the nurse but they refused to look at my ribs so i asked the "senior-on" which is pretty much the person that is in control of the entire facility that day. the nurse told him not to worry about my complaint because i was just trying to get attention. i went through hundreds of mental trapping mind games that fled my mind with constant depression. it got so bad at !
points that a level of insanity was closely reached. one of my friends got pushed to the limit and one day they found him, they kicked down the bathroom door where they found him in a large thick puddle of blood. he had locked himself in the bathroom, broke the mirror and slit his wrists going with the vain. he then stuck the piece of glass up into his neck in two places. i guess evidently he was trying to slit his own throat. they found him spasing and shaking because he had lost so much blood. he had spent nearly 3 and a half years in this place before he decided that he couldn't take it anymore and he needed to escape. stuff like this happens everyday in this place where it is just ignored as if nothing has happened. some cases are even worse then what i have mentioned today. a girl about 6 years before i went there was found in the shower where she hung herself. she died and no justice was done nothing was even looked into they just told her parents that she was severely mentally unstable and nothing was ever done about it to this day. this place doesn't help you it just creates so many problems and instabilities once you get out that you are set up for instant failure. i have ran into several people on the streets that i knew when i was in there and they where just there for talking back to their parents, minor school absences, and occasionally smoking pot they turned into crackheads and severally emotionally disturbed. the question is how long is a place like this going to go on for until something is done about it?.... where is this society taking us?....do we really want are children and loved ones heading in this direction?....u choose which direction you want your child to go in...but this is just the spoken words of truth from someone that has gone through this experience and wants to let you know what really goes on behind those never-ending locked doors....
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Sounds like a place where Marty Kruglik would love to huy yuh yuh at. Me Marty would love to go to Utah on Bison back and torture the Utahians.
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Jesus.
Everyone on this damn site should STILL be locked up in one of these places.
You all obviously are stunted at the age of trauma and cannot deal with life beyond that point.
wah wah wah.
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:sad: I was at Provo Canyon from 2000 to 2001. The emotional, mental and physical torture I experienced there has haunted me since the day my father finally came to the campus, saw the truth for himself and took me out immediately. That was 4 years ago and still to this day I have nightmares of screaming girls being drug into the cold concrete rooms they called "observations". They would be drugged against their will with a shot in the butt and put to sleep. I remember being told to "get on a chair" where I sat for about 2 hours straight before any staff acknowledged me. Finally, one of the staff came over to speak to me. The first words out of her mouth were
"You are a disease and anyone you speak to...anyone you look at...anyone that gets near you is bound to catch your disease."
After that she put me on a "no talk" standing order where I was unable to speak whatsoever for 2 months straight.
Today I am 19 years old and have been out of Provo Canyon School for 4 years. I live 10 minutes outside of Hollywood and am working with a Miramax producer who is very much interested in my story. Right now we are almost finished writing the screenplay and will be working on a film within the next year or two. If that doesn't open up the eyes of parents across America I don't know what will.
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Me Marty go to Utah... find 10 wives like Mormons... build giant tepee and pray to Great Spirit for boys' underpants.
hi-yuh hi-yuh hi-yuh hi-yuh.... TEMPTATIONS SING!
I'M RICK JAMES BITCH!
thats some fucked up shit at PCS. sorry to hear that. there needs to be some sympathy on this website....heartless bastard fucks
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The "behavior modification" techniques reported by the students to be utilized at the school are archaic and unethical. The use physical punishment, forced confinement, and other punishment is inappropriate unacceptable. Testing attitude and future intentions by the use of a lie detector is offensive and inhumane.As a human rights advocate and a parent, I demand that this institution be shut down immediately. The individuals who have run this institution and supported these practices should be punished and barred from ever having a role that can impact young people again.We must send a message that prisons treating adolescents inhumanely will not be tolerated or condoned.
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I was sent to Provo Canyon School at the age of 13. That was in 1999. Now It's 2005 and I am still haunted by that place. I had just turned 13 years old. I felt as though i was being held prisoner. What had I done to deserve this? Everything I did there was considered to be "wrong". Nothing was ever good enough. The floor was never clean enough. The sheets were never tight enough. The toilet was never shiny enough. There was still dust on the window sill after having cleaned it 3+ times. I remember one time a peer (who has also signed this petition) and I cleaned the isolation rooms, both on our knees scrubbing the hard concrete floor. I was not allowed to talk to my parents and the 10 minute phone calls that I did have every other week were monitored. The staff and therapists made me carry around a coin and with every statement that I said I was made to flip the coin; the side of the coin determined whether I was lying or not. I had to do this for at least a week. What they had done is a very high level form of cult abuse. Their whole program is inhumane. I'm sorry, but being stripped down of your clothes, tranquilized, and strapped to a bed then told by one of the staff members that you are "ruining her night because she was supposed to meet up with her friends to go somewhere" is not what I think of as humane. We were punished for everything. I kept quiet for a very long time. There is so much more shit that went on that i struggle to talk about today. I was looking through this petition and found at least 4 names of girls that were at Provo Canyon School with me. That, in itself is helping me to realize that everything that I remember is true and did happen and that Provo Canyon School should be shut down. I am in shock that it is still running today. I do not understand how the United States of America can overlook such a place and just let it stand as though it is doing no harm. Provo Canyon School should be done away with.
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Provo Canyon School was hellish. I spent 2 years of my life getting abused physically and mentally by staff that worked there. many simple rights were taken there like being able to use the restroom when you need to. i underwent severe punishment in a constant mind-trap. i recall one night at about 1:00 in the morning i was forced to sit indian style and stare directly at a wall in the snow while it was snowing in my boxers for 2 and a half hours. another time i laughed once when everybody had just gotten into bed and i was grabbed from behind from a staff by the neck and arm where my face was smashed into the wall and then dragged 15 feet to a confinement cell. my friend tried to stop them but they "P.I." him which stands for a physical intervention. they dragged me into the back holding cell and through me into the wall. i sat in that sell from 10:00 that night until 9:30 the next morning in my boxers with the confinement door shut with the cold air-conditioning turned up all the way. i sat on the cold cement floor until 9:30 in the morning until i was given a small paper cup with water to take a muscle control pill that doesn?t allow you to move your body, and if you do move your body you got really bad cramps and spasms. Around 4:00 that day i was finally given food but it was hard to eat because i had extreme rib cramps from being slammed into the wall. the nurse came to inspect my ribs and said that there was nothing wrong and i was just complaining to get attention. my ribs were bruised pretty bad because the next day my ribs had a big bruise mark going across them. i asked to see the nurse but they refused to look at my ribs so i asked the "senior-on" which is pretty much the person that is in control of the entire facility that day. the nurse told him not to worry about my complaint because i was just trying to get attention. i went through hundreds of mental trapping mind games that fled my mind with constant depression. it got so bad at !
points that a level of insanity was closely reached. one of my friends got pushed to the limit and one day they found him, they kicked down the bathroom door where they found him in a large thick puddle of blood. he had locked himself in the bathroom, broke the mirror and slit his wrists going with the vain. he then stuck the piece of glass up into his neck in two places. i guess evidently he was trying to slit his own throat. they found him spasing and shaking because he had lost so much blood. he had spent nearly 3 and a half years in this place before he decided that he couldn't take it anymore and he needed to escape. stuff like this happens everyday in this place where it is just ignored as if nothing has happened. some cases are even worse then what i have mentioned today. a girl about 6 years before i went there was found in the shower where she hung herself. she died and no justice was done nothing was even looked into they just told her parents that she was severely mentally unstable and nothing was ever done about it to this day. this place doesn't help you it just creates so many problems and instabilities once you get out that you are set up for instant failure. i have ran into several people on the streets that i knew when i was in there and they where just there for talking back to their parents, minor school absences, and occasionally smoking pot they turned into crackheads and severally emotionally disturbed. the question is how long is a place like this going to go on for until something is done about it?.... where is this society taking us?....do we really want are children and loved ones heading in this direction?....u choose which direction you want your child to go in...but this is just the spoken words of truth from someone that has gone through this experience and wants to let you know what really goes on behind those never-ending locked doors....
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I'm in total support of having Provo Canyon School shutdown. I was a "guest" there from june 1998 thru oct 2000 and witnessed and was subject to all types of abuse, physical, mental, verbal and spiritual. The first 20 minutes there I witnessed a measly 120 pound kid get his face smashed repeatedly into the bench in investment resulting in 37 stitches to his chin and continuous beatings even after he had passed out. i was denied medical attention after having surgery and denied my meds. SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN!!!! i am a soldier and it astonishes me that everyday i risk my life for a country that supports these types of places. it hurts me.
sincerely, stewart s. pegues, PFC u.s army
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My daughter was tortured. It must be investigated. The fact that this institution has destroyed two petitions just goes to show how low they will stoop. PCS is a very dangerous place for children and destructive to families. It is extremely punitive and uses abusive behavior and emotional modification.
MBT
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I understand that Elan school's thread here at Fornit's is not all that serious. However my son bruched his teeth with the same toothbrush he used to clean the toilets. I was not aware of this until he left. We never talked about it. If anyone is serious plz ctct me,
The site would't let me register but I want you calls! 1-207-998-4666
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KEEP CALLING THIS NUMBER NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE! 1-207-998-4666
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The worst 8 months of my life where those spent at Provo Canyon School where I was doped up, beaten, and abused physically, and mentally. When I hear "dial 9" I freak and still have issues about asking to do everything that drives my wife nuts. worst experience ever and will do whatever i can to close the atrocity
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Are you saying that he had to brush his teeth with the same toothbrush used to clean toilets at Provo Canyon School? When was this. I'd suggest you report this to the authorities - too few people do so.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
-- John Muir
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is this the same thing a sdiscovery acadamy, which is in provo, utah? :question:
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I've just read some of these testimonials from former students at Provo Canyon School. It's so outrageous that the authorities in Utah look the other way and allow this to continue.....
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Honestly, if you seriously want to shut your Provo Canyon School down I highly suggest getting it exposured through televsion. Write to Oprah and Montel Williams and talk show hosts that do those kinds of stories, that would be your best shot, if the school gets bad exposure than no one will send their child there hence they will lose money and shut down.
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By the way that 207-998-4666 number is elan's number.
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Discovery Academy is also in the Provo Area but it is not the same as Provo Canyon School. PCS is one of the largest programs in Utah. It looks like a nice boarding school from all appearances. It also costs about $350 per day - so one would expect their child to get the very best in both education and therapy. To some this may be true - but many have told of brutal isolation, forced drugging, rough take downs that left them injured and traumatized. The authorities have so far done nothing - so this petition is a way to let them know just how many people don't approve of their methods.
Forgiveness is divine. Forgetfulness is just a mental dysfunction.
--Antigen
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Provo Canyon School is NOT a school; my child was not only restricted of his civil rights but fell behind one whole school year in Academics because he was not taught on his school level. My son was in fact drugged and locked in most of the time watching videotapes or climbing rocks all day. Most of the things he did learn was how to curse and how to survive the system.
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Crazy is a term of art; Insanity is a term of law.
- Puleo
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Provo Canyon School is currently trying to discredit those who are critical of their reprogramming. According to a new website these people are manipulative and telling fantastic stories of staff brutality and neglect.
I don't think that hundreds of strangers who live all over the country would somehow conspire and tell the same types of stories of isolation, drugging with haldol, obs placement, staring at a wall, sensory deprivation and brutal takedowns to name a few.
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I was over-drugged at Provo Canyon School. I saw counselors pit individuals against each other and only stop it once blood was shed. I received very little 'therapy' what so ever and was kept in urine filled rooms, underground and did not see the light of day for 6 months of the year I was there.