http://www.bbcity.co.uk/user/Tom/2004-03-06[Mar 6th 2004, 17:48] >>> Whilst browsing through some archived posts, I happened upon this one on the subject of Tranquility Bay, a teen "reeducation" camp. For the link-averse, I'll fill you in: parents with 'difficult' kids (difficult meaning that they read complicated literature, smoke cigarettes, hang around with people who make parents uncomfortable, think without the aid of school or church etc.) get a company to literally kidnap their teenage kids, take them off to a far-away place (in this case Jamaica but they go to lots of places where the government aren't too unwelcoming) and treat them rather questionably.
Following up from that, I've poked about and found a few more bits and pieces of interest. This story from the Denver Rocky Mountain News illustrates the rise of these private-sector behaviour modification schools...
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