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Anonymous:
An article in Jamaica Observer re: Dundee and Tranquility Bay:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/htm ... ty_bay.asp

Paragraph 2 is especially interesting with Mr. Kay's claims that it was never a remote possibility that the deported Jamaicans would be working at TB and that he knows nothing of them. Apparently he has forgotten that they previously worked for him at TB. It seems to be that same short term memory problem that the Casa director  had when High Impact was shut down and he claimed no affiliation with HI even though his family reps had referred many children there.

Anonymous:
"Tranquility Bay is not abusive and I can supply kids who will say we are not abusive and who were there for two years..." he added.

If he is so confident that TB is not abusive, why did Mr. Kay install cameras in the OP room so he can observe what's happening in there? And why, since the cameras were installed, do staff members take children out of the OP room to restrain them?

FaceKhan:
Aww I never thought he cared. How nice. I think it far more likely those cameras are used to make sure the inmates spend the whole time in whatever unnatural position they have been ordered into without the need for staff to watch them the whole time.

Anonymous:
the cameras are not there for protection, they are there to cut down on staffing costs.

kay is always finding new ways to save money.

FaceKhan:
Giving some credit to their business sense, the cameras are also probably there to make sure that they can catch any particularly dangerous (to them anways) staff members.

Constant surveilance reinforces the cult phenomenon in these places. In fact it is the basis for how they break people. If you know that anything you do is gonna be reported by your peers hoping to be moved up or rewarded for ratting out other kids. In addition the rules are so many and so insane that you can be punished for no reason at all. It keeps everyone on edge all the time so they break faster.  

I remember the story of a woman in East Germany who was arrested by the secret police several times. She always knew some one was informing on her. It was only after the Berlin Wall fell and the records of the secret police were opened that she discovered that the informant was her husband of nearly 40 years.

There is one slightly positive way of looking at it, at least the cameras will alert them to any particularly abusive staff members which they can fire if only to protect themselves from lawsuits.

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