It baffles my mind that these facilities stayed so long in full force without any repercussion from law enforcement or government officials.
Maybe than again, like anything else pending a trial case, it takes that long just to find out, "hey, there's a problem here".
I would think that the media would have been well aware about how shocking this facility was and want to blow it out of the water like anything else now a days, however, back in the 80's we were in a type of atmosphere (congressionally) trying to "save" those people from drug abuse, and the Reagans sure wanted to advertise.
I suppose when something as popular as a "fad" (such as "just saying no") is reflected on all communities, sure they will listen to that.. but never to the children who were "abandoned" and needed to fight every step of the way to survive.
[ This Message was edited by: ladyjerrico on 2002-03-14 18:38 ]