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anybody ever hear of Abraxas?

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Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" ---Briefly, Lissner founded Abraxas in Marienville, PA in 1973. It was a small drug abuse treatment TC, dedicated to the addiction treatment of juveniles, but perhaps not exclusively. I think they had 30 residents in the beginning. They were absorbed by Cornell Corrections, Inc., at Lissner's initiative, shortly after the Welfare Reform Act was pushed through during Clinton's term in the latter half of 1996. This Act made economic survival real difficult for some private non-profit social services programs.

Lissner courted a deal which enabled her program to continue operations, semi-autonomously, within the larger framework of the for-profit corrections corporation. She also started a small research foundation which she still heads, at least as of a few years ago, which is also somehow connected to Cornell Corrections, Inc.
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The full formal name for that Welfare Reform Act is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. It had and continues to have a huge impact on the availability and delivery of certain social services, which includes the treatment and rehab of court ordered adolescents, which I believe is Abraxas' mainstay.

Excerpt from a keynote address given by Edward Skloot at the annual meeting of the California Association of Nonprofits, Oakland, CA, in October 1999, and subsequently published in the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly the following year:

Three different models of service delivery now seem to be developing. The first model is sale and merger. Consider Pittsburgh-based Abraxas. This was a respected nonprofit organization that specialized in working with the hardest to handle young people. Three years ago, its CEO, Arlene Lissner, saw the handwriting on the wall. She feared large for-profits "would roll over us and put us out of business" (personal telephone interview). So Abraxas put itself in play. It chose to be bought out by a for-profit company, Cornell Corrections Corporation. It is now part of this $200 million comprehensive services firm. It runs both adult and juvenile correctional facilities from coast to coast.[/size]

Pile of Dead Kids:
I can't imagine how this could encourage shit like what happened with those Wilkes-Barre judges.

seamus:

--- Quote from: "seamus" ---What a bona-fide fucking monster THAT will become. Like some thing out of a bad orwellian/kafka-esque sci-fi movie. The potential for massive abuse is epic, fucking biblical. People need to know.
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O K  what parent in their right mind is gonna send a kid to a rtc whos parent company runs a facility(parnered/contracted to I.n.s. ,and homeland security no less) in friggin Gitmo? wtf?

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