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Straight, Inc. and Derivatives / Straight was a cake walk in comparison.....
« on: February 05, 2002, 06:50:00 PM »
I wasn't in Straight, I was Kids of El Paso. I was also in jail once but just for a few days.
In retrospect, if given the choice, I would've gladly spent 11 months in jail instead of in Kids. In jail, the biggest enemy is boredom. But at least you have mail, phones, and as many cigarettes as you can smoke. Most importantly, you know when you're getting out.
There were several "clients" in Kids of El Paso, that made the choice eschew jail and go with the rehab thing. All of them regretted it deeply.
I would suggest that anyone who claims that taking troubled teens and subjecting them to brainwashing techniques invented by Pavlov and practiced by the Chinese Communists is a good thing ought to have their heads examined by a real professional therapist.
What these individuals fail to understand is that what Straight and Kids did is ILLEGAL by any standard, and proven to be dangerous.
Yes, languishing in a cell block for almost a year is NOTHING compared to what Kids was. And I still don't think these bootcamps are anywhere near the level of mindfucking that Kids attained in the 80's.
In retrospect, if given the choice, I would've gladly spent 11 months in jail instead of in Kids. In jail, the biggest enemy is boredom. But at least you have mail, phones, and as many cigarettes as you can smoke. Most importantly, you know when you're getting out.
There were several "clients" in Kids of El Paso, that made the choice eschew jail and go with the rehab thing. All of them regretted it deeply.
I would suggest that anyone who claims that taking troubled teens and subjecting them to brainwashing techniques invented by Pavlov and practiced by the Chinese Communists is a good thing ought to have their heads examined by a real professional therapist.
What these individuals fail to understand is that what Straight and Kids did is ILLEGAL by any standard, and proven to be dangerous.
Yes, languishing in a cell block for almost a year is NOTHING compared to what Kids was. And I still don't think these bootcamps are anywhere near the level of mindfucking that Kids attained in the 80's.