I still blame the institution, simply because it doesn't work. It teaches kids to lie, locks them away from contact with "undesirable" friends. The whole idea of "calling out" a peer and holding a meeting to discuss some alleged transgression sounds like a witch hunt. It's based on Skinner's behavior modification, and Mao Tse Tung's Communist Re-education techniques. What happens when kids are released with "skills" like this? Lying, manipulating, little snitches may do well in the program, but they don't make any friends on the outside. Recidivism is high, most end up in another facility as adults. Read the Surgeon General's report from a few years ago, and remember that "outcome" studies like PV uses are based on questionnaires, and dead folk don't return them.
It's sad about the young girl dying, but I don't know how it happened, anyway. It might have been a car crash, the postings were kind of vague about cause. Let's not engage in the sick and juvenile necrophiliac crap, that gives these trolls fodder. I would like to know if the above parent with the daughter saved by PV had ever considered community based treatment. The kids who thrive in environments like PV are the ones happiest to be out of their homes, which doesn't say much for the parents. They're also the best manipulators, and counselors and therapists can be wrapped around a finger just as easily as parents. The kids learn to lie on a different level. Is that success?
