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FaceKhan:
Escapes-Smuggled messages For those of you who successfully escaped or almost successfully escaped, how did you do it. What would you recomend to someone trying to escape. Did people help you, how far did you have to go before you felt safe. What are the legal ramifications for escapeing or helping someone escape from a non-court ordered program.


Also, did any of you have any luck with smuggling messages in or out, any ideas for simple codes. Especially those in wilderness programs, were you allowed letters from your parents during the camping/hiking portion of your program. I am thinking of faking a letter from my friend's parents and then using some of the little catch phrases that we always throw around, let him know it is me sending the letter and then include some sort of secret message. I thought about lemon juice aka. invisible ink or possibly purposely mispelling some words with extra letters to form a message.  

KimberlyNJ:
escape letters etc. As for KIDS, (the place I was in).  I had to realize for myself that I wanted to get out.  There was no real way of contacting  me...just make sure that if you get a strange phone call one day that you GO GET that person, or at least do your best to retrieve that phone call and where it came from.  

My father wasn't involved with the program , and he told me after I got out, that he heard I was on third phase and went to my school to get me. (I was already set-back to 1st phase by the time he did this)  That's an idea.  As for the letter, it's an idea, but it could only get that person nin trouble.  It MIGHT get to him, but then he also might not get the "secret message" and if he gets it, that would probably mean that staff that read the letter prior to him reading it would get the message also.  They are trained to look for that sort of thing.

I hope anything you try works, but don't get your hopes up.

I also found out after KIDS that one night when I was a 1st phaser and going home with other people, that all my friends were standing outside the program one night protesting and looking for me to try and pull me from a car...I remember the night, because all the old comers told us newcomers to put our headds down so as not to see anything.  So, I didn't even know it was them!

A lot of efforts are useless, but do what you can...always!

Antigen:
Re: Escapes-Smuggled messages Have you talked to this kid's parents at all? I know they're probably the ones who put them there. And so they're probably some of those TOUGHLOVE idiots who don't want to listen to anything. But it might be worth a shot to just give them what you know so far about the people they've turned their son over to.


Another strategy, when someone joins a cult like this, their neighbors and co-workers notice and gossip. You might try and connect with some adults who would be sincerely interested in their friends' wellbeing. `Course, things might be different in this case because, as I understand it, the parents don't get all that involved. They've just 'sent a kid off to private school'.


Are you still on for that protest? Taking a bull horn to the scene is probably the best way to send a message. Before you draw attention to yourself, though, you might want to try and find allies in town, or feel things out a little. See what the local sheriff thinks about all of this. Generally, Mountaineers hold personal privacy as a high tenet of the local culture. They won't give a crap what's going on on someone else's private property. But something like this is bound to bring trouble to the area, and they hate that more than anything, especially with WV trying to get in on the tourist industry.


Bottom line, a LOT of these kids have had good friends on the outside trying to get them out over the past 30 years. They're pretty good at preventing that from happening. Your friend is probably being told that no one outside the camp cares for him, including his parents. And after awhile, he might start to believe that. If he's not trying to break out or to contact you, that's the reason. But keep trying. Post missing posters with his picture around town if you're up for a confrontation. That might get some people talking. Might also get you a free stay in the local jail if law enforcement is on cozy terms with the school.
-If there's a worse idea going than locking kids up for victimless crimes, it's probably locking them in close proximity to some tyrannical altruist bent on helping them even if it kills them.
Saving our Children from Drug Treatment Abuse

Tony LL:
Re: Escapes-Smuggled messages I don't know what kind of program your friend is in, but I used to fantasize day in and day out about someone coming to my rescue. If your friend is in a place like Kids or Straight, then you can't send letters or anything else even if it does have their parents name on it. What is the name of the place this person is in? Where is it? Is it a phase type program? Why did this persons parents put them there? How long is the program?


I ask these questions because if its anything like Kids, I would encourage you to do whatever it takes (within reason) to help them get out of there. If they're a minor though, you might be screwed. However, if this individual is about to become 18, you now have a world of options open to you. Go to the local authorities and report that someone is being held illegally by so and so.

But if they're a minor, you and that person would have to disappear until they're 18. I doubt though that if you could be creative enough to get them out of there in a nonviolent manner you would suffer any real consequences.

I will leave you with this; I am assuming that this place is like the place I was locked away in when I was 17. If it is, you need to find out what appropriate action you can take to help your friend get out of there. Tell the authorities that someone you know is in danger and that they need help. Keep stirring things up. Its impossible to explain what those places are like and what they're capable of doing to a young person's mind.

However, you need to give more detail about the situation before  any of us here can give you really effective advice. For all I know this person might be at a very therapuetic place where they are getting the help they need. I don't know. Please provide more detail.

FaceKhan:
Escapes-Smuggled messages My friend Barton Alex Smith is in Alldredge Academy in Tucker County WV. He is about 3 1/2 months from his 18th birthday and was sent on a 3 month program of which he is in his 3rd week. Basically it is a 24 day wilderness trip, then a month of living in a primitive village, then a month in some sort of shabby school building.



The state of WV may be shutting them down because they are an unlicensed facility possibly as soon as Friday 22nd, but if the school is able to get a judge to quash the order by the health dept to close down or if the judge grants them another stay (he was unavailable so they were given a 2 week stay until he was able to hear their appeal) then it becomes more necesary to try to break him out.


My question is that if we were to break him out in a relatively non-violent way, essentially sneaking him out or holding the staff at bay while we get him out, or possibly getting a message to him to fake illness and go to a hospital where we could get him out easilly, would we be in the clear once he turned 18?


He has other friends who live far away (location deliberatly withheld) so hiding him for 3 months is not going to be extremely difficult. Our idea was get him out of there and then hand him off to one of his other friends who can take him far away He is in a hiking group of about 14 kids with a small number of staff, so if we could cause a ruckus and get all the kids in that group to try to escape, they might spend 3 days catching all the other kids and it won't seem unusual that one is still at large until after he is already very far away.



I have spoken to the county sheriff and a woman from the health dept and both said that they do not agree with the 'school' or its methods but they seemed in awe of the kind of money that the school and the parents who support it are able to put up to defend it. The Sheriff seemed to imply he felt the school and the frequent escape attempts which involve his dept were a nuisance and the woman with the county health dept said that she can't imagine sending her kids to a place like that.


I think we will be going forward with the protest I have to get back on track, but I am aiming for Friday 22nd in the afternoon at the school itself. That way if it is ordered to close that morning, we can make sure they do not try to send the kids elsewhere and if they manage to fool the judge into allowing them to stay open then we can make our voices heard. It is several miles from the nearest town according to my info so I do not think the police will take much interest in a protest there. Good idea with the missing poster, maybe Ill make a giant one and make a sign out of it.

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