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Open Free for All / Wayne Kernochan making the rounds manipulating!!!
« on: February 16, 2012, 08:29:03 PM »
Wayne Kernochan has been making the rounds throughout the TTI . Since his colossal error of abusing Lee Goldman by stalking her and threatening her he has felt the need to schmooze. He got Ginger to bow and give a review about a memoir she has no idea if it is true. Even though no one that was at Elan from 1975 - 1978 has ever come forward to say anything negative about Danny Bennison, not even one person. Does anyone else find this amazing. There are 8-10 people who knew Danny while he was at Elan that have posted here and on other sites, not one Peter Arnold, Joicelyn Baer, Albert Beauchane, Margaret Devlin, John Wright, KLynn Corning, Harry Kranick, Carmella MenyHart or Wendy Fraerman have come forward and stated that he had committed any abuse. There are countless Elan survivors from the 70's that were there while Danny Bennison was there, many visit sites like this. No one has spoken this filthy fucking garbage this sexually dysfunctional abusive whackjob has said, he name being Wayne Kernochan.
 
Then we have Pixie who hands out Reddit logo's like they are chocolate chip  cookies. Pixie handed the reddit logo over to Wayne...that is how brilliant this woman is. Oh!! Wayne I love your book, you are such a good writer...here's the logo.  
Since you morons refuse to expose this abusive piece of shit then you leave it up to us. Wayne will not find a day with the public here that they don't know he is a fraud.  
Wayne would you please make up another Terry Kaito, maybe this time make it Debbie Dole, Cherly, Rick D, Julie K., Franklin J., Reginald H., come on make it a real resident that was there during the time you say you were there.

Wayne the only reason you have any support at all from Straight, Ginger, Pixie and Elan survivors.......you guessed it, please remember that. You did not earn their respect or support it was defaulted.

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The Afghanistan Report the Pentagon Doesn't Want You to Read

POSTED: February 10, 4:25 PM ET | By Michael Hastings

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl ... z1mIg9Vkv4
 

Earlier this week, the New York Times’ Scott Shane published a bombshell piece about Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis, a 17-year Army veteran recently returned from a second tour in Afghanistan. According to the Times, the 48-year-old Davis had written an 84-page unclassified report, as well as a classified report, offering his assessment of the decade-long war. That assessment is essentially that the war has been a disaster and the military's top brass has not leveled with the American public about just how badly it’s been going. "How many more men must die in support of a mission that is not succeeding?" Davis boldly asks in an article summarizing his views in The Armed Forces Journal.


Davis last month submitted the unclassified report –titled "Dereliction of Duty II: Senior Military Leader’s Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War Effort" – for an internal Army review. Such a report could then be released to the public. However, according to U.S. military officials familiar with the situation, the Pentagon is refusing to do so. Rolling Stone has now obtained a full copy of the 84-page unclassified version, which has been making the rounds within the U.S. government, including the White House. We've decided to publish it in full; it's well worth reading for yourself. It is, in my estimation, one of the most significant documents published by an active-duty officer in the past ten years.

Here is the report's damning opening lines: "Senior ranking U.S. military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the U.S. Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan that the truth has become unrecognizable. This deception has damaged America’s credibility among both our allies and enemies, severely limiting our ability to reach a political solution to the war in Afghanistan." Davis goes on to explain that everything in the report is "open source" – i.e., unclassified – information. According to Davis, the classified report, which he legally submitted to Congress, is even more devastating. "If the public had access to these classified reports they would see the dramatic gulf between what is often said in public by our senior leaders and what is actually true behind the scenes," Davis writes. "It would be illegal for me to discuss, use, or cite classified material in an open venue and thus I will not do so; I am no WikiLeaks guy Part II."

According to the Times story, Davis briefed four members of Congress and a dozen staff members and sent his reports to the Defense Department’s inspector general, and of course spoke to a New York Times reporter; only after all that did he inform his chain of command what he'd been up to. Evidently Davis's truth-telling campaign has rattled the Pentagon brass, prompting unnamed officials to retaliate by threatening a bogus investigation for "possible security violations," according to NBC News.

Although Davis's critics have tried to brush off his claims as merely the opinions of a "reservist," – as Max Boot put it – his report is full of insight, analysis, and hard data that back up each one of his claims. He details the gross failure of training the Afghan Army, the military's blurring of the lines between public affairs and "information operations" (meaning, essentially, propaganda), and the Pentagon's manipulation of the U.S. media. (He expertly contrasts senior military officials public statements with the actual reality on the ground.) Davis concludes: "It is my recommendation that the United States Congress – the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in particular – should conduct a bi-partisan investigation into the various charges of deception or dishonesty in this report and hold broad hearings as well," he writes. "These hearings need to include the very senior generals and former generals whom I refer to in this report so they can be given every chance to publicly give their version of events." In other words, put the generals under oath, and then see what story they tell.

Michael Hastings is a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and author of The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/bl ... z1mIghrTGh

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Open Free for All / Felice Eliscue is Anti-Troll!!
« on: February 06, 2012, 07:14:13 PM »
Felice Eliscu as we all have noticed likes to post fabricated manifestos and comments that she and her friends wrote to abuse another survivors. Danny did not write this apology. Wayne in his pathetic moment of emotional crisis, "I need you to validate me Danny" mode, got Felice and her merry band of assholes (Matt Hoffman being the circus clown) to write it.


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“Wayne I also want to take this time to apologize for any and all harm I caused you either directly or indirectly. I was put in charge to care for you (whether Elan wanted me to do this or not) I knew that you needed to be protected and I failed horribly.

I can only hope in time you can see just how sincere I am.

Now I would also like to take the time to express my sincere apologies to others to have gone to Elan that I was unkind to and down right [sic] rude to over the last year or so. As I have said before I could not have prepared myself enough to understand the impact of emotions that stormed back into my life when I ventured onto this site and others concerning Elan.

I did not handle the emotions from others well. I can only hope that Felice, Sharon, Matt, Mark, Wayne and others can forgive my intolerable behavior I displayed here and other sites a while back. My ongoing amends to you all has been to leave you alone and to empathize with your pain and how I can irritate this with my behavior.”

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YV23/ Wayne Kernochan, Anti-Troll/ Felice Eliscue, Mark Hoffman and Matt Hoffman wrote many fake manifestos and comments that were meant to look like Danny wrote them.

 Here we go again lets pull out the fake manifestos and posts because we can't get Danny to admit that all his friends here are him. To all the new viewers please know that when YV23/ Wayne Kernochan, Matt, Anti-Troll /Felice can't get me to shut up they will resort to fake, fabricated posts that Mark Babitz and Matt Hoffman wrote with Felice Eliscue's help.







Quote from: "DannyB.II"
My name is Daniel Bennison, I was in Elan from 6/75 till 1/77 as a resident and a employee from 1/77 till 11/78.

 I bring this up because of past and recent events and interactions with other residents. Guys this will be the last post I do to defend really (the indefensible) the abuse committed while I was affiliated with Elan. Wayne has written a book and that I am in it on Chap. 5 because of abuses on committed at Elan while as a employee. This was my response to him after being told this,"I want you to quote this in your book. I did not say I did not abuse kids because I did as a resident and a employee. As a resident I fought in the ring for the house, screamed at folks during GM's, during a haircut, encounter groups and screamed at folks shot down while walking the house.As a employee I committed all of the abuse I mentioned above plus directed residents to verbally assault and demean residents. Did I physically abuse people, ? Yes. Now does this make me a better person then the next employee,? Yes it really does. All I am doing here is stating a fact."John has also taken the liberties of threatening me with exposer concerning accusations of abuse and that I had committed while staff, with 5 or more witnesses to these incidents.I don't think that you folks really want a all out war of words on this site but on the other hand I can see where it is constructive to have a resident call out a staff member of Elan who posts here, on supposed abuses. I don't mind that a book is being written about Elan and the abuses Staff committed. Just remember though I will not apologize to anyone for any abuses I did commit.There was enough bullshit that happened from 75-78 for me to have given a lifetime of nightmares to others, without anyone making me do something I truly don't mean. John says I was Staff/Ass.Director (E-7). I was staff/Ass.Director E-7 from 2/78 till 8/78, I transferred to a different position/different house till 11/78. I am curious as to how John knows I arrived at E-7 in 1978. Anyway I post here and I am open to conversation, you would think that John would use my information to his advantage, for he is also an abuser of others. there are also other staff and Ass. directors who have information that would help in exposing Elan, John and Felice are both frauds, As far as the dragging incident I am not nor will I be ashamed at programs and the courses it takes, I know that the once Fat Girl thanks me now. I will help any of you lose wight like here just call me,Now first off Felice is very well prepared for this sort of thing because she has been haunting this sites for over 10 years. The only thing one has to do is ask Felice about her family sibling, parents and children and you can see the abuse. Far after she left Elan and still present today. I will not get into specifics right now only to say her garbage is still going on. This is of her own making though she will blame everyone else a common trait of Art and herself. Then pick on other residents if their still not satisfied. Felice you are still very sick, you hang out with Art and you harass people. A nother side of Felice is her brilliance with Art, she is masterful, she also has great ability with filming herself in the wild, and last her passion is trolling survivor sites, Felice stay with your strengths and stop with the dirt business it is unbecoming of you, Felice is a much more horrible woman then any of us would dream of,That's right Felice and your still an idiot and maybe if you had not posted your crap, I would let you satisfy me and get me into the mood lady friend, you and I would be alright, but no you had to stoop to a disgusting level. So you keep posting away to prove your point. As far as I'm concerned you have no class what so ever. You call yourself a woman, please. Run to Art.

 And "Anne" I list you with them, your someone who know nothing about programs and Elan.

 As far as the car dragging incident, I did plenty of shit in the program that I don't regret now. Hell yes! You may already know this but Straight took the mutual- abuse thing to another level. A good portion of each day was spent abusing each other in group in one form or another. Virtually everyone there did shit to somebody else that they don't regret it now. I understand how people got caught up in that shit at Elan but I don't understand the why the car incident is such a big deal. You really don't upset me about it at all. I mean, I feel no guilty about poking people in the back, helping restrain people and confronting people. When I had dragged that girl behind a car, I held my head with pride and I would do everything I could keep helping people in programs. I would oppose programs that don't have some kind of abuses as part of the atonement for those sins of the residents, towards their family's and friends. I did't care then and I don't care now,it's the past, and I did what I had to do, and would gladly do it again

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Open Free for All / Wayne kernochan's Memoir Reviews and Porn!!
« on: February 05, 2012, 01:24:06 PM »
Wayne got a great review from Beth Bartlett. Oh yaaaaayyyyy the world is speaking.

Here is Beth Bartlett's profile: http://www.blogger.com/profile/04576743533617299665

 The depressing part here, is that Wayne doesn't care that Beth is surrounded or better yet lumped into a forum with profane, vulgar and filthy pictures of woman being abused for money. Members please noticed one constant concerning Wayne Kernochan, he enjoys  pictures of women in porn. The sick irony here is Wayne is accusing people of debauchery while displaying his porn video library here. Isn't it true that more young women are forced into this industry against there will every year. This is a site for young adults and kids who were abused. Wayne you wrote a memoir supposedly about this abuse. What gives here?
Why are you, Wayne Kernochan, allowing pornographic photo's of young women being taken advantage of and reviews of your memoir to be posted in the same thread? I don't think you care!
You don't care!!  Like we have always stated you are not intimately involved with the abuse that went on at Elan. No one who wrote a memoir about themselves as a survivor would allow the disrespect this site shows for their personal and sensitive story. No one would bring their story (memoir) here and have it be reviewed surrounded by young women being abused sexually, porno. Wayne you promote this behavior.
You don't care because you have no personal investment, you don't have no old wounds and scars that are still redden and tender.  You are a fraud.
We will continue to expose you for the liar you are. You are one of the sickest bastards I have ever known. Danny was right even as far back as 2008 when he said at dinner one night, this is a sick fuck watch him. This story about you will be told.


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Re: Musing from the Fornit Idiot; DANNY BENNISON

New postby A Life Gone Awry The True Story of Danny Bennisons Abuse Review » Today, 6:42 am
http://plaidearthworm.blogspot.com/2012 ... -awry.html

The world believes Wayne. RuraiDan :nods:

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Feed Your Head / The EVERYTHING Index for 2011 / Education of Abuse
« on: December 20, 2011, 10:03:45 PM »
This is a professionally chronicled itemized list of events that happened in 2011 concerning abuse of children. Plus educational information concerning the effects of abusing children and
a comprehensive list of links to assist in gathering information.
Thank you nospank.



http://nospank.net/rcntnews.htm

2011
The EVERYTHING Index
— Includes links to recently added items and to items not linked elsewhere on this site.  
 
  Assessing the Economic Importance of Reducing Violence – Healthcare's Violent Struggle, By Madeleine Y. Gomez, Ph.D. & Ernest Zambrano, MBA., CASEINPOINT, December 2011 - January 2012

  Sacramento's 'girl with a hundred scars' files claim for damages, By Marjie Lundstrom, [email protected], The Sacramento Bee, July 31, 2011

    Phoenix police: Dead girl in footlocker tortured; 4 arrested, By William Hermann, The Arizona Republic, July 28, 2011

    Secretary Duncan, Attorney General Holder Announce Effort to Respond to School-to-Prison Pipeline by Supporting Good Discipline Practices, By Education Department, Ed.gov, July 21, 2011

    Lawsuit filed over paddling incident, By Mark Harrison, Times-Journal, July 20, 2011

    Accused Molester Given Access to Child Pornography in Case Against Him, By Tom Henderson, ParentDish, July 14, 2011

    Paddling on the decline, but still alive in WNC schools, By Colby Dunn, Smoky Mountain News, July 13, 2011

    The fine line between spanking and abuse, By James Cannon, Midland Reporter-Telegram, July 12, 2011

    GAO: US tracking of child-abuse deaths is flawed, By David Crary, AP National Writer, Associated Press, July 12, 2011

    Corporal punishment outmoded, ineffective; Let's Do Better, By Brenda Robinson, source: http://www.FrostIllustrated.com, July 6, 2011

    Pa. child abuse numbers raise questions, By Patriot-News Editorial Board The Patriot-News, July 05, 2011

    A Telling Moment, By Jordan Riak, July 5, 2011

    Caged and doomed, boy leaves sad account of his life, By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor, CNN, July 3, 2011

    Can the cane: corporal punishment has no place in our schools, By Mike Stuchbery, "The DRUM Opinion," http://www.abc.net.au, July 1, 2011

    Parents Caught Spanking Children on Audiotape Real Time, By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News, June 30, 2011

    The Debate on Spanking is Dead, By James C. Talbot, June 27, 2011

    Gaston County Schools puts down the paddle, By Amanda Memrick, Gaston Gazette, June 22, 2011

    Altamonte Springs adoptive mom enters child-abuse plea – Children spanked and starved, By Rene Stutzman, Orlando Sentinel, June 22, 2011

    Namibia: Corporal Punishment Case Heads to Court, By Denver Kisting, The Nambian, allAfrica.com, June 22, 2011

    Mom killed child 'over broken TV', By Kirstan Conley and Jennifer Fermino, New York Post, June 21, 2011

    Vatican Calls Meeting and Plans Database in Effort to Stop Sexual Abuse, By Elisabetta Povoledo, The New York Times, June 18, 2011

    The Lasting Effects of Child Neglect, By Brad Soroka, www2.wjtv.com, Jackson, MS, June 16, 2011

    Hard Discipline: A Grand Old Tradition at St. Augustine High School, New Orleans, PTAVE, June 14, 2011

    Vow on cane code, By Our Legal Reporter, The Daily Telegraph, Calcutta, India, June 14, 2011

    A Dozier boy’s nightmares, By Robert W. Straley, Special to the St. Petersburg Times, June 12, 2011

    Middle school principal ousted after altercation with girl, By Bill Turque, SOURCE: Washingtonpost.com, June 10, 2011

    Don't spank or scream: Tips for taming kids, By Cheryl Tierney, SOURCE: medicalxpress.com, June 10, 2011

    Jimmy Dunne comments on Global Summit, June 9, 2011

    Shackling Students: Why is One Mississippi School Handcuffing Bad Kids to Poles?, SOURCE: Alternet.org, June 9, 2011

    The Medical Minute: Unruly kids? Don't spank or scream, By Cheryl Tierney, PennState Live, June 9, 2011

    Are Spankings Harmless or Akin to Assault?, By Jackie Jones BlackAmericaWeb.com, June 8, 2011

    Boy Beaten With Belt, Parents Charged, SOURCE: News4Jax.com, June 8, 2011

    GCSO: Mother Lied To Cover-Up Boyfriend Killing Baby — U.S. Marshals Arrested Georgia Ann Sprouse, SOURCE: WYFF4.com, June 8, 2011

    TSA stops Dallas Human Rights Conference Honoree and seizes conference prop as dangerous weapon, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, (Free-Press-Release.com), DFW International Airport, Dallas, TX, June 7, 2011

    Bus Driver Resigns Over Suspected Use of Corporal Punishment, By Scott Gustin and Deven Swartz, Staff Writers, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP), June 6, 2011

    Anguish has never healed for Natives physically, sexually abused at St. Ignatius mission, By Gwen Florio of the Missoulian missoulian.com, June 5, 2011

    Boy, 12, charged in slaying, had tumultuous upbringing, Cristian Fernandez's upbringing marred by stepfather's suicide, sexual assault, By David Hunt, The Florida Times-Union, June 4, 2011

    St. Augustine High School president transferred to Baltimore, By Bruce Nolan, The Times-Picayune, http://www.nola.com, June 4, 2011

    Corporal Punishment in American Schools -- Teaching Through Terror?, By Lisa Kaas Boyle, Environmental Attorney, Huffingtonpost.com, June 4, 2011

    SMU Calls in Experts for Global Summit Calling For a Ban on Corporal Punishment, By Leslie Minora, SOURCE: blogs.dallasobserver.com, June 3, 2011

    Man Accused Of Suffocating 1-Year-Old, SOURCE: WYFF4.com, June 3, 2011

    Cops: Man spanked boys after selling them smokes, By The Associated Press, SOURCE: http://www.wltx.com, May 31, 2011

    School spanking comes under fire, By Britt Combs, SOURCE: www2.mcdowellnews.com, May 31, 2011

    Girl, 2, Dies after Spanking, SOURCE: http://www.myfoxaustin.com, May 27, 2011

    Robin Pagoria, Florida sheriff's deputy, busted for spanking girls and making porn films: cops, By Rick Shapiro, Daily News, May 27, 2011

    Iowa Principal Spanks Students on Their Birthdays, Desmoines Register, May 26, 2011

    Letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, From PTAVE, May 25, 2011

    No spanking over parents' wishes, By Editorial Board, statesman.com, Texas, May 13, 2011

    In reversal, House OKs corporal punishment limits, By Associated Press, http://www.kltv.com, May 12, 2011

    Bill to curtail paddling of Texas students rejected, By Dave Montgomery, Star-Telegram, May 11, 2011

    Ten Ways To Confuse a Child, SOURCE: http://demandeuphoria.blogspot.com/ May 10, 2011

    EDITORIAL — Corporal Punishment Must Stop... for all our sakes, By Sir Frank Peters, New Age, Bangladesh, May 6, 2011

    EDITORIAL — Corporal punishment is unethical, By Shafiqul Alam, The Financial Express, Bangladesh, May 4, 2011

    Open Letter to the Principal of a Paddling School, From PTAVE, April 28, 2011

    Global Summit on Ending Corporal Punishment and Promoting Positive Discipline, June 2 - 4, 2011, The Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas

    Spanking children & other forms of violence: Connections among war, violence, sexism and corporal punishment, By Riane Tennenhaus Eisler, 2005

    Mower County Parents Accused Of Abusing Children, By Laura Lee, abc6NEWS - KAALtv.com, April 27, 2011

    Govt bans corporal punishment, Dhaka, Bangladesh, bdnews24.com, April 26, 2011

    An appeal to abolish corporal punishment, By Md. Kolil Ibrahim, The Financial Express, Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 20, 2011

    DELAWARE DIARY – Whipping of prisoners was family affair, By Michael Morgan, http://www.delmarvanow.com, April 13, 2011

    A strong and loving bond between family members becomes its own moral discipline, By James Warren, Federal Way, WA, April 9, 2011

    Two letters to the editor re: "A Trip to These Principals May Mean a Paddling.", New York Times, April 7, 2011

    Thank You New Mexico For Banning Corporal Punishment in Schools, By Marc Ecko, Huffington Post, April 7, 2011

    Spanking is the second mistake, By Leslie Cabarga, Ventura County Online, April 7, 2011

    Hon. George Miller Introduces Legislation to Protect Students in School from Harmful Abuse, April 6, 2011

    Martinez signs anti-paddling bill, By Milan Simonich, Santa Fe Bureau, Alamogordo Daily News, April 6, 2011

    Lufkin ISD reacts to paddling incident at Brookhollow Elementary, By Morgan Thomas, KTRE, April 5, 2011

    Violence does not teach, By Algernon D'Ammassa, The Deming Headlight, April 4, 2011

    VIDEO: GOOD MORNING AMERICA/New Mexico Governor yet to sign Legislation to End School Paddling of Children/Rally April 5th
    http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teacher ... nt-1328536
    April 3, 2011

    School child abuse, By Salon Premium Member: blwpyrtvx, open.salon.com, April 3, 2011

    EDITORIAL: Spare the rod, please, By Walter Rubel, http://www.aolnews.com, March 26, 2011

    Editorial: Would Jesus beat a kid?, Keith Magill, Executive Editor, DailyComet.com, March 26, 2011

    FIJI - Definite no to corporal punishment, By Samisoni Nabilivalu, The Fiji Times Online, March 26, 2011

    Resolution to Encourage The Elimination of Corporal Punishment in Public Schools, By The NLGA (National Lt. Governors Assoc.), March 25, 2011

    PHILIPPINES - Anti-spanking bill passes first hurdle in House, By abs-cbnNEWS.com, March 25, 2011

    Corporal Punishment of Schoolchildren: The Problem and the Cure, March 21, 2011

    Editorial: Time to end corporal punishment, By John M. Crisp, Scripps Howard News Service, March 21, 2011

    FREE New Mexico's Children From the Paddle, An Open Letter to Governor Susana Martinez from Marc Ecko and the Unlimited Justice campaign, The Huffington Post, March 19, 2011

    Act Now to Protect Schoolchildren in New Mexico, Urgent message from Michael Goldfield March 19, 2011

    Bill outlawing corporal punishment in NM public schools goes to governor, By Milan Simonich, Santa Fe Bureau, El Paso Times, March 18, 2011

    Black Earth pastor, brother charged with child abuse for spanking kids with dowels, rods, By Devin Rose, [email protected] Sacramento Bee, March 2, 2011

    Fla. teacher warned of girl's abuse before death Associated Press, March 2, 2011

    Mixed signals on assault and battery By Richard L. Davis, President, Family NonViolence Inc., March 1, 2011

    New Mexico — Corporal punishment still exists despite push, By Milan Simonich, The Daily Times, March 1, 2011

    Suffolk woman arrested for child abuse, WTKR-TV3, March 1, 2011

    PTAVE's letter to educators and education policy-makers in places that allow disciplinary pupil beating, February 25, 2011

    Bad example set By Richard L. Davis, Boston Herald, February 25, 2011

    School Child Abuse, By Tom Johnson, February 23, 2011

    I-SS axes corporal punishment policy, By Chyna Broadnax, Record & Landmark, Statesville, North Carolina, February 15, 2011, 2011

    Teachers hitting kids? Yes, By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, February 14, 2011

    Family history uncovers Waco State Home's brutal past, By Patrick Beach, Staff, American-Statesman, February 14, 2011

    NEW BRITAIN - A man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for beating a 6-year-old over spilled water., By Christine Dempsey, http://www.lfpress.com, December 27, 2010

    What works to stop bullying, By Steve Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, December 22, 2010

    Corporal punishment totally unnecessary, By Md Musa Azad, New Age, Op-Ed, Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 22, 2010

    Police arrest Mishawaka man after spanking son, Tribune Staff Report, http://www.southbendtribune.com, December 22, 2010

    11 week old dies at the hands of her father, By Debbie Herb, Child Welfare Examiner, http://www.examiner.com, December 21, 2010

    Mom gets 12 years for killing child; Prosecutor sought longer sentence for ‘monster’ who beat 2-year-old, By Scott J. Croteau, TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF telegram.com, December 21, 2010

    Still Unprotected, By Al Crowell San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, 2010

    A message from PTAVE Board Member Tom Johnson, December 17, 2010

    Jim Richards interviews Jordan Riak about government's role in shielding children from parental violence, NewsTalk 1010, Toronto, December 14, 2010.

    Childhood Roots of Empathy, Peace and Nonviolence, Video of Mitch Hall's presentation to the Ahimsa meeting in Berkeley, CA, December 7, 2010

    Police: Child Abuse Disguised As 'Discipline', 4 Face Charges Of Child Abuse, FOX 5 News, December 2, 2010

    Action Alert! Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act, By Robin Hansen, Special Education Examiner, examiner.com, November 30, 2010

    Corporal Punishment Complaint, Reported by Nina Criscuolo, Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., November 24, 2010

    Urgent Announcement from The Hitting Stops Here!, Texas State Capitol Rally on Friday, December 3rd
    Special Guest and Supporter Marc Ecko Will Join Us.

    Call to change smack laws, By Helen Kempton, http://www.themercury.com.au, November 21, 2010

    SPECIAL OFFER from Parents and Teachers Against Violence in Education

    Paddling: Parent Claims Teacher Went To The Extreme By Carrie Marchese, WHNT NEWS 19 Consumer/Investigative Reporter http://www.whnt.com, November 9, 2010

    My niece is being abused — Should I intervene?, By Cary Tennis, Salon, November 8, 2010

    East Texas Woman Faces Three Felony Counts In Horrific Child Abuse Case, John Nova Lomax, Houston Press, November 4, 2010

    Harris takes aim at district's discipline plan, By Barbara Leader, [email protected] Tampa Bay Online - TBO.com, November 4, 2010

    A response to "Schools Average in Paddling", By Debra Stang, October 26, 2010

    The Folsom Experiment, By Jordan Riak, October 11, 2010

    School Bullying: The Problem and the Cure, By Jordan Riak, October 10, 2010

    Youth who killed his family at 14 freed, http://www.upi.com, October 9, 2010

    CHANGE IS HAPPENING, By Norm Lee, PARENTING WITHOUT PUNISHING, October 2010

    Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child? Excessive Punishment Can Have Lasting Psychological Impact on Children, Researchers Say, ScienceDaily, September 22, 2010

    In praise of a teacher, Letter to the Editor of New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh, By Shabnaz Ullah, September 22, 2010

    Corporal punishment teaches hate, Letter to the Editor of New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh, By Shakul Ali, September 17, 2010

    CPS finds abuse...eventually, By Laurie Roberts, Columnist, The Arizona Republic, September 15, 2010

    Attempted paddling leaves kid's arm in a sling, By Tyana Williams, WAFB.com, September 14, 2010

    Man arrested for using BB gun on boy, myfoxorlando.com, September 13, 2010

    Man, 39, arrested for alleged child abuse, By Sheboygan Press Staff, sheboyganpress.com, September 13, 2010

    Get serious about ending youth violence, By Ed Wells, RRSTAR.COM, September 10, 2010

    Schools average in paddling, By Jon Alverson, Desoto Time Tribune, September 10, 2010

    Paedophile could face large compensation claim, http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk, September 8, 2010

    INDIA: PM speaks out against corporal punishment in schools, NetIndian News Network, New Delhi, September 4, 2010

    Strict disciplinarian or something else? Headmaster faces jail for years of abusing students.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk, September 3, 2010

    The Bomb in the Brain: A documentary about the long-term effects of child abuse
    By Stefan Molyneux, http://www.freedomainradio.com, September 2, 2010

    AFRICA: Children appeal to governments to end Violence Against Children (VAC)
    http://www.ghanaweb.com, September 2, 2010

    Kenya’s new Constitution prohibits all corporal punishment
    SOURCE: http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org, September 2, 2010

    Congratulations, Bangladesh!
    Letter to the Editor of The Independent, from Jordan Riak, September 1, 2010

    Childhood Origins of Tyranny, By Mitch Hall, September 2010

    Corporal punishment at hagwon to be banned
    By Kang Shin-who, The Korea Times, August 31, 2010

    INDIA: Banning corporal punishment in CBSE affiliated schools
    voiceofsikkim.com, August 30, 2010

    Nanny Guilty Of Abuse Gets 8 Years — Jeannie Campbell Faced Up To 15 Years In Prison, News4Jax.com, August 27, 2010

    Abolition of corporal punishment
    A letter to the Editor of Holiday from Dr. Ali Biswas, MBBS, MD Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 27, 2010

    Spanking remains a popular form of discipline
    By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, WRAL.COM, NC, August 24, 2010

    Parents Who Clash More Likely to Spank Kids — Corporal punishment of 3-year-olds twice as likely in these homes, study says
    By Serena Gordon, HealthDay Reporter, HealthDay News, August 23, 2010

    Should U.S. ban paddling school kids?
    By Daniel McBride, Staff Writer, dailycomet.com, Louisiana, August 23, 2010

    Corporal punishment ban - Schools should better respect children's rights
    Editorial, The Korea Times, August 22, 2010

    Children's corporal punishment must be abolished
    By Dr. Sorif Khan, Letter to the Editor, Holiday, Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 20, 2010

    Couple Accused Of Telling Toddler To Hurt Herself
    WMUR 9 - New Hampshire, http://www.wmur.com, August 19, 2010

    Mother and Boyfriend Charged for Spanking Kids with Board with Staples in it
    By KSPR News, August 19, 2010

    Southwest attendant takes baby after slap from mother
    By Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, August 18, 2010

    Couple accused of abusing child to appear in court
    By Emily Burton, Richmond Register, KY, August 18, 2010

    Mother speaks out about son's abuse at TX state school
    By Terri Gruca, KVUE News, TX, August 17, 2010

    Spank Your Children Well
    By Richard Latimer, capecodtoday.com, August 16, 2010

    "I've treated the ugly bruises and lesions"
    A letter from Dr. Ali Biswas MBBS, MD, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangaldesh, to The Independent, August 15, 2010

    EDITORIAL — Ban on physical punishment in schools Counselling and training of teachers may be necessary
    The Daily Star, Bangladesh, August 11, 2010

    Teacher beats students with burning firewood
    The Times of India, August 10, 2010

    Corporal punishment of children remains common worldwide, UNC studies find
    UNC School of Medicine, Filed under: Announcement, Research, August 9, 2010

    Bangladesh bans corporal punishment in all schools
    By Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC News, Dhaka, August 9, 2010

    TIME-OUT OR TORTURE? Sex offender put kids 'through hell' in time-out room
    By Clio Francis, Sunday Star Times, August, 8, 2010

    The benefits(?) of spanking
    A letter to PTAVE form J. T. S. of Texas, August 5, 2010

    Corporal punishment
    By Sir Frank Peters, Letter to The Daily Star, Bangladesh, August 1, 2010

    Teacher Charged With Sex Assault, Accused of Spanking Student
    NBCConneticut.com, July 30, 2010

    The Odds in Black and Blue: Corporal Punishment in US Schools
    Posted By: Kate McGovern, http://www.bookofodds.com, July 27, 2010

    Tunisian law bans spanking of children
    By AFP, The Sydney Morning Herald, July 22, 2010

    End of an inhumane practice
    By Dr. Ali Ullah, The New Nation, Dhaka, Bangladesh July 22, 2010

    Police: Dead toddler had signs of trauma
    By Ashley Kelly, Newport News, July 21, 2010

    Bangladesh court orders end to corporal punishment in schools
    By Julhas Alam (CP), The Canadian Press, July 20, 2010

    Ban corporal punishment in all the schools
    By Jennifer Hancock, Tampa Humanism & Freethought Examiner, July 18, 2010

    Former school bus driver/spanker to appear in court on molestation charge
    By Tom McLaughlin, Daily News July 16, 2010

    Soon, beating your child could land you in jail
    By Himanshi Dhawan, TNN, The Times of India, July 16, 2010

    Brazil president seeks legal ban on smacking
    BBC, July 15, 2010

    Brazil Government Wants to Ban Corporal Punishment of Kids
    Latin American Herald Tribune, July 14, 2010

    Father charged in east Houston beating death of son
    By Anita Hassan, July 12, 2010

    Lawsuits Protecting Students
    By thepoptort.com, July 12, 2010

    Myanmar troops seize vulnerable boys for tough army life
    By Rachel O'Brien, AFP July 11, 2010

    Day Care Center Shut Down Over Spanking And Cursing
    Metro Source News, July 7, 2010

    Spankings can turn easily into abuse
    By Greg Segan, Amarillo.com, July 6, 2010

    Court Rules for Teacher in Student Abuse Case
    By Annie Youderian, Courthouse News Service, July 6, 2010

    Corporal punishment is a blot on on Bangladeshi society
    By Sir Frank Peters, The Independent, Bangladesh, July 4, 2010

    "Wouldn't Hold Still" — Charges Filed in Death of "whooped" 5-year-old Julian Soliz
    http://www.myfoxaustin.com, July 2, 2010

    Why Primary Care Physicians Should Promote Nonviolence and Positive Child Discipline
    By Madeleine Y. Gómez, Ph.D., July 2010

    An Arcane, Destructive – and Still Legal – Practice, By Deborah J. Vagins, The Huffington Post, June 30, 2010

    Enterprise day care shut down by state following allegations of abuse
    By Tim Unruh, Salina Journal, June 25, 2010

    La Martiniere bans corporal punishment after student's suicide
    The Times of India, June 18, 2010

    Suit: State failed to stop abuse, let Carnation girl starve for years
    No action taken after abuse was discovered in 2005; teen rescued 3 1/2 years later weighed 48 pounds
    By Levi Pulkkinen, SEATTLEPI.COM staff, June 15, 2010

    Corporal punishment has been banned: Kapil Sibal
    Indo-Asian News Service, New Delhi, June 14, 2010

    Woman charged with murder of 3-year-old
    She was on probation for previous incident, report says
    By Mike Blasky, Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 10, 2010

    Death penalty sought in adopted York County boy's death
    The Associated Press, May 24, 2010

    Houston Texas teacher abuse: Cell phone video caught teacher beating 13-year-old, (NewYorkInjuryNews.com - Injury News, New York City), May 13, 2010

    New research stresses pitfalls of spanking
    By Daniel Muhau, The Citizen, April 20, 2010

    Texas: Guard accused of assaulting youth goes to trial
    By Alicia A. Caldwell / Associated Press, Dallasnews.com, April 19, 2010

    Corporal Punishment in Schools and its Effect on Academic Success, Donald E. Greydanus, MD, Pediatrics Program Director at the Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies, testifies at a hearing about corporal punishment. Source: EdLaborDemocrats, April 15, 2010.

    Police: Man tortured 4-year-old to death for wetting his pants
    By Jason Kessler, CNN, April 15, 2010

    Football Coach Accused of Years of Player Abuse Is Back on the Field
    FOXNews.com, Updated April 13, 2010

    Spanking Linked to Childhood Aggression
    By Todd Neale, Staff Writer, MedPage Today, April 12, 2010

    Our Students Deserve Better
    By Eileen Eady, Jackson Free Press, March 3, 2010

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Feed Your Head / BOOT CAMP FOR KIDS: Torturing Teens for Fun and Profit
« on: December 20, 2011, 09:43:08 PM »
This is a interesting site with over 100 incidents of abuse documented.

http://www.nospank.net/boot.htm

BOOT CAMP FOR KIDS: Torturing Teens for Fun and Profit

Youth trainer at a juvenile facility: "If I can't make a kid puke or piss in his pants on his first day, I'm not doing my job."

Other Web-based organizations that report on the child-abuse-disguised-as-therapy industry

    ANTIWWASP.COM

    Community Alliance for the Fair and Ethical Treatment of Youth
    CAFETY.ORG

    Coalition Against Institutionalized Child Abuse, Inc.
    CAICA.ORG

If you are the owner of a site that belongs on the above list, or know of one, please advise www.montanapbs.org/WhosWatchingTheKids/, then select Windows Media Player.


    Graduate of a school for troubled teens describes therapy


    Molestation and beatings commonplace in Texas youth lockups; cover-up of abuses probed; reforms promised 2007


    REFORMING TEXAS REFORM SCHOOLS by Jordan Riak, April 3, 2007


    TWO LETTERS FROM A DESPERATE MOM, March 22, 2007


    DEADLY RESTRAINT, By Jordan Riak, December 1999; Revised/updated May 2006



    JOEY ALETRIZ
    1989 - 2006
    Beaten and suffocated at SummitQuest Academy
    No charges will be filed in teen's death



    MARTIN LEE ANDERSON: A LIFE CUT SHORT February, 2006
    Teen walked into the Bay County Sheriff’s Office Boot Camp facility in perfect health, but was transported out comatose in an ambulance two hours later.



    RODNEY HULIN, JR.
    17-year-old dies by suicide following repeated rapes and beatings while in custody, June 1996.


    RAPE AS PUNISHMENT


    School of Shock
    How many times do you have to zap a child before it's torture?
    By Jennifer Gonnerman, Mother Jones, August 20, 2007


    JUDGE ROTENBERG CENTER INVESTIGATED FOR ALLEGED CRUELTY TO CHILDREN, June, 2006


    Breaking Down Our Kids; Child Abuse for Profit is Occurring in America By Joshua Chiappelli, SOURCE: Dissident Voice, April 20, 2006


    NO MORE NIGHTMARES AT TRANQUILITY BAY?, By John Gorenfeld, AlterNet, January 23, 2006


    AT SOME YOUTH 'TREATMENT' FACILITIES, 'TOUGH LOVE' TAKES BRUTAL FORMS, By Michelle Chen
    SOURCE: The New Standard , November 21, 2005


    Exploitation of Youth & Families: Perspectives on Unregulated Residential Treatment, By Allison Pinto, Ph.D., Monica Epstein, Ph.D., Paul Lewis, B.B.A., Kathryn Whitehead, B.A.
    Presented to APA Convention, August 12, 2006


    Exploitation in the name of "specialty schooling"
    By Allison Pinto, Ph.D., Robert M. Friedman, Ph.D. and Monica Epstein, Ph.D.
    Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute, University of South Florida, 2005


    STATEMENT BY KATHRYN WHITEHEAD, Former Student at Mission Mountain School, Montana, October 25, 2005
    SOURCE: www.cafety.org
    Community Alliance for the Fair and Ethical Treatment of Youth


    FALSE ALLURE OF THE BOOT CAMP
    By Henry Lawton
    Correspondence to PTAVE, January 18, 2005


    FACT SHEET
    BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION FACILITIES
    U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C., January, 2004


    TEEN-HELP OPERATORS HAVE CLOUT Family behind schools with checkered record calls in political favors, critics say (Article Last Updated: 09/21/2004 10:59:06 AM ) By Dan Harrie and Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune, September 21, 2004


    BREAKING THE VOW OF SECRECY A true story about Teen Help/WWASP By Karen Lile, January 1998


    CAN I TRUST THEM? My Experience of Teen Help / WWASP/ASI/Resource Realizations/ "Discovery" Seminar, and Results of Subsequent Research, A personal account by Kendall Ross Bean, January 1998


    AMBASSADOR DE SADE, By John Gorenfeld, AlterNet, SOURCE: http://alternet.org/story/27725/, November 8. 2005


Congressman George Miller (7th District, California) introduces legislation to curb child abuse in residential treatment programs. Bill would affect facilities both in U.S. and abroad

Wednesday, April 20, 2005


George Miller

    Read: Press release

    Read: End Institutional Abuse Against Children Act (Adobe Reader required)

    Read: Correspondence between Congressman George Miller and Attorney General John Ashcroft about alleged human rights violations of children in WWASPS facilities.

    Petition for the passage of the End Institutionalized Abuse Against Children Act of 2005
    www.PetitionOnline.com/hr1738/petition.html
    Please click the above link and sign now!

   

    'White House Boy' tells his story, By Tony Holt, Hernando Today, December 18, 2011

    A Dozier boy’s nightmares, By Robert W. Straley, Special to the St. Petersburg Times, June 12, 2011

    Family history uncovers Waco State Home's brutal past, By Patrick Beach, Staff, American-Statesman, February 14, 2011

    Mother speaks out about son's abuse at TX state school, By Terri Gruca, KVUE News, TX, August 17, 2010

    TIME-OUT OR TORTURE? Sex offender put kids 'through hell' in time-out room, By Clio Francis, Sunday Star Times, August, 8, 2010

    A TIMES EDITORIAL — Legislature should fix Dozier School for Boys or shut it now, St. Petersburg Times, March, 10, 2010

    Plainfield school accused of food denial, using ‘jail cell’, By Emily Groves, Norwich Bulletin, March, 6, 2010

    Justice denied: Pa. judges accused of taking kickbacks to send youngsters to juvenile prison, By MICHAEL RUBINKAM and MARYCLAIRE DALE , Associated Press, StarTribune.com, February 11, 2009

    3 Fired From Treatment Center In Teen’s Death, Associated Press, www.nbc4i.com, February 8, 2009

    DEADLY RESTRAINT By Jordan Riak, December 1999, Revised/updated May 2006

    Memories of Casa by the Sea, By Ramey Smith, July 10, 2008

    Boy suffocated during school punishment; Coroner's Report, Graeme Hamilton, National Post, with files from Canwest News Service, June 20, 2008

    ACLU sues Texas youth prison system claiming abuse, By Jim Vertuno, Associated Press, June 11, 2008

    Survey: 13,000 Claims of Abuse Reported in U.S. Juvenile Centers 2004 through 2007, By Associated Press, March 2, 2008

    Youth pleads to get out of rehab, By Cayman Net News Online, February 29, 2008

    Texas Youth Commission workers accused of sexually abusing juvenile inmates; two face trial but venue not yet set, From staff and wire reports, Dallas Morning News, January 17, 2008

    Handle With Care: The state continues to license a Midstate youth treatment facility where two have died and many others have been abused, By Elizabeth Ulrich, Nashville Scene, November 8, 2007

    Experts on Self-Injurious Kids Challenge Dr. Israel's Methods, By Jennifer Gonnerman, Mother Jones, August 20, 2007

    What Works for Troubled Teens?, By Maia Szalavitz, Mother Jones, August 2007

    Eating Their Own Vomit, By Maggie Burks, Jackson Free Press, November 7, 2007

    When ‘Tough Love’ Is Too Tough, EDITORIAL, New York Times, October 16, 2007

    Troubles Mount Within Texas Youth Detention Agency, By Solomon Moore, New York Times, October 16, 2007

    Teenager testifies in Hinton trial, Vic Vela, Cañon City The Daily Record, August 28, 2007

    Christian discipline? 2 arrested in alleged dragging of girl behind van at boot camp, By Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, August 10, 2007

    Abuse, neglect appear widespread in Texas schools for retarded, By Emily Ramshaw and Amy Rosen, Dallas Morning News, July 23, 2007

    Loophole in state law has allowed some in teen-help industry to go unlicensed, By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune, July 16, 2007

    EDITORIAL: Close Columbia Training School By JFP Staff, Jackson free Press, June 13, 2007

    Mississippi Sued Over Alleged Abuse at Girls Detention Center, FOXNews.com, July 12, 2007

    Academy alleges libel, slander, By Vic Vela, Daily Record, July 7, 2007

    Criticism over youth jail death, BBC News, June 28, 2007

    Romney, Torture, and Teens: The former governor's connections to abusive "tough love" camps, By Maia Szalavitz, reasononline (www.reason.com), June 27, 2007

    MOVIE REVIEW: "Over the GW", If These Cold Walls Could Talk, By Nicolas Rapold, The New York Sun, June 28, 2007

    N.Y. report denounces shock use at school; Says students are living in fear, Boston Globe, By Scott Allen, Globe Staff, June 15, 2007

    Texas Youth Prison Official Fired; Inmate Abuse Alleged, By Lynn Brezosky, Associated Press Writer, FOX 4, April 29, 2007

    The Horrors of Hutto; Inside Texas' For-Profit Immigrant Prison, By Cindy Beringer, CounterPunch, April 28-29, 2007

    Texas Juvenile Detention Centers Cope With Charges of Rape, Abuse, By Keith Elliot Greenberg, FOXNEWS.COM, April 16, 2007

    Ex-youth prison officials charged with inmate abuse, CNN.com, April 10, 2007

    Police Investigate All 22 Texas Youth Prisons for Inmate Abuse, By Associated Press, March 6, 2007

    Lichfield Declared Innocent of Dundee Ranch Academy Abuse Charges, By Leland Baxter-Neal, Tico Times Staff | www.stats.org, August 17, 2005

    The lessons I learned at Casa by the Sea , By Sarah Barlow, August 6, 2005

    Abounding Grace School's owners to answer charges; Punishment turned into abuse, boys say, By Jessica Guenzel, Winston-Salem Journal, July 31, 2005

    Camp Counselors Charged in Teen's Death, Earthlink.net, July 19, 2005

    Camp death leads to murder charges -- Boy died after being restrained by counselors, By Craig Schneider, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 19, 2005

    My unforgettable experience as a guest of the state, By Carlos, June 25, 2005

    FORT LAUDERDALE `BOOT CAMP' -- Slew of calls drew police to school, By Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, June 3, 2005

    Abuse allegations investigated at Lauderdale boarding school for girls, By Bill Hirschman, Sun-Sentinal, June 2, 2005

    FORT LAUDERDALE `BOOT CAMP' - Loophole let school avoid regulation, By Carol Mabin Miller, Miami Herald, June 2, 2005

    Army-style girls' school shuts doors, By Carol Marbin Miller , Miami Herald, June 1, 2005

    Counselors Fired After Death at Ga. Camp, By Harry R. Weber, apnews.excite.com, May 13, 2005

    Boy's pleas for aid denied; Inhaler withheld, restrained teen died, By Craig Schneider, Jill Young Miller - Staff, Atlanta Constitution-Journal, May 7, 2005

    State probes boy's death; Camp's risky punishment cited, By Jill Young Miller, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 6, 2005

    Lawsuit: Youth claims camp couselors broke his arms, By Barbara White Stack, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 3, 2005

    Private school doesn't like state's 'therapeutic' label , By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune, April 29, 2005

    Mother Files Lawsuit, Claims Boarding School Abused Son, By Associated Press, KSL TV, April 22, 2005

    Mother sues treatment center, claims son was beaten, abused , By Pamela Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune, April 22, 2005

    GEORGE MILLER: End Institutional Abuse Against Children Act, April 20, 2005

    Suitor loses Kemper bid -- Boonville council rejects offer, By John Sullivan, Columbia Daily Tribune, April 19, 2005

    Mom pulls twins from Eagle Point after riot, By Mollie Reeves, The Mississippi Press, April 16, 2005

    Ivy Ridge accreditation suspended in state probe, By Chris Garifo, Times Albany Correspondent Watertime Daily Times, April 15, 2005

    The lawsuits against Bethel Boys Academy in Mississippi, SOURCE: www.heal-online.org/bethelsuits.htm

    His Own Private Abu Ghraib, By John Gorenfeld, March 23, 2005, Source: Orkut

    Boonville looks to sell old academy, By Steve Rock, The Kansas City Star, March 21, 2005

    Group Seeks Probe Into Boading School, By The Associated Press, KSL TV, March 6, 2005

    Bethel Shuts Down After Girls Flee, WDAM-TV, February 17, 2005

    Students flee Bethel school; allege abuse, HattiesburgAmerican.com, February 16, 2005

    Beware of the quick fix, Henry Lawton's remarks after reading about the teen's death at Thayer Learning Center Boot Camp, February 8, 2005

    Reforming youth prisons: Rehabilitation being favored over punishment, Source: TheReporter.com, February 7, 2005

    THAYER LEARNING CENTER -- Boot camp sued in Santa Rosa teen's death -- Suit says Missouri center failed to give prompt, competent medical care, also abused youth, By Paul Payne & Carol Benfell, The Press Democrat, February 7, 2005

    Scrutiny increases on centers for teens; Four compounds in Baja closed in as many months, By Sandra Dibble, Staff Writer Union-Tribune, January 10, 2005

    Boot camp director guilty in teen's death, By Michael Kiefer, The Arizona Republic, January 3, 2005

    Suffering Together, By Trevor Aaronson, New Times Broward-Palm Beach, December 9, 2004

    Paradise lost: Pupils complain of life in Jamaican boot camp, By Oliver Duff, The Independent, December 7, 2004

    Secrets in the Schoolhouse, WEAR-TV, November 30, 2004

    Parents Sue Bethel Boys Academy; Plaintiffs allege systemic, methodical torture of youths - In a civil action filed November 2, 2004, against Bethel Boarding Academy, AKA Bethel Baptist Church, a private kids' boot camp/behavior modification lockup, the list of plaintiffs' allegations include: "...Defendants use coercive persuasion to coerce cadets into beating, terrorizing, mocking, or restraining other cadets, while maintaining “plausible deniability” of their own culpability in these violent abuses when confronted by civil authorities... Cadets at Bethel Boys Academy are forced to guard, harass, mock, assault, and physically injure other cadets on command. They are not given a meaningful choice concerning whether to commit such acts against other cadets. They are forced to commit violent crimes against other cadets as a matter of survival. The choice is one between doing the beating, or receiving the beating... Those who fail to comply with the orders of the Drill Instructors are subjected to loss of some or all privileges, beatings by Drill Instructors, extreme physical exhaustion, made to hold to electric fences, held underwater at the “swamp” up to and including drowning and resuscitation..."
    Read the complaint at http://nospank.net/complaint2tc.pdf

    Teenager dies at school known for strict discipline, By Matthew Franck, Post-Dispatch (Jefferson City Bureau), November 10, 2004

    Parents sue Bethel Boys Academy; Cadets beaten, forced to work at military style school, lawyer says, By Lora Hines, http://www.askquestions.org/articles/teens/
    August 12, 2004

    Youth authority to end segregation punishment (solitary confinement), By Associated Press, San Jose Mercury News, August 5, 2004

    Mississippi Juvenile centers called 'worst' in U.S. -- Justice Dept. cites widespread abuse, By John Fuquay, The Clarion-Ledger, July 2, 2004

    Juvenile justice must ensure fair treatment, By U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, March 18, 2004

    Casa by the Sea: A memory that will haunt me forever, By Jennifer Ilona Chambard, July 2004

    WANT YOUR KID TO DISAPPEAR?, By Nadya Labi Legal Affairs, July 2004

    State agency investigates Bethel facility -- Report details alleged abuse, By Antoinette Konz, Hattiesburg American, June 11, 2004

    Schools close amid discipline questions, CNN.COM, May 31, 2004

    Louisiana shuts down youth prison -- Move comes after decade of abuse allegations, CNN.com, May 27,2004

    Former students, prosecutors question methods of some 'tough love' schools, By Cara Connelly, KY3 News (Springfield, MO), April 30, 2004

    View two videotapes of teenagers in custody being beaten by guards; hear commentary. Please be patient while loading.

    Tape 1) Select "Watch Mike TeSelle's Report" after going to Senator: Videotaped CYA Beating Warrants Charges

    Tape 2) Open QuickTime Player on your computer. Then go to http://nospank.net/beatings_kpix.mp4

    Videotape shows guards beating two CYA inmates, By Associated Press, Oakland Tribune, April 1, 2004

    Tape captures beating of two young inmates, 6 CYA guards facing probe, By Karen de Sá and Mark Gladstone, Mercury News, April 1, 2004

    From Coercive to Strength-Based Intervention: Responding to the Needs of Children in Pain, By Larry K. Brendtro, Ph.D., January 2004, (PDF, 34 pages)

    JUVENILE INJUSTICE, Infoshop News, March 22, 2004

    Miami Juvenile Jail Official Told Dying Teen To 'Suck It Up' , WSVN-TV, February 27, 2004

    Youth died amid chaos, confusion , By Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, February 27, 2004

    Suicides spark scrutiny of juvenile facilities; Teens were beaten, sexually abused, isolated for weeks at a time, By Mary K. Reinhart, East Valley Tribune, February 13, 2004

    ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE BEING INVESTIGATED - Scathing report on Youth Authority, By Karen de Sá, Mercury News, January 28, 2004

    Suit filed over youth centers, By Ana Radelat, Clarion-Ledger Washington Bureau, December 19, 2003

    Kaufmann vs. Mountain Park Academy (7 Plaintiffs in this lawsuit), Case # 103cv00105cas, Filed in US District Court, Eastern Dist. of Missouri, Southeast Div., September 24, 2003

    Abuse cited at youth training centers - Rights violated, Justice Dept. says, By Patrice Sawyer, Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer, Clarion Ledger, July 15, 2003 .

    The last resort, Decca Aitkenhead, The Observer, June 29, 2003

    Care of Juvenile Offenders in Mississippi Is Faulted, By DAVID M. HALBFINGER, The New York Times, September 1, 2003. (Return to this index by using your browser's "back" button.)

    A Mississippi Gulag A report by Assistant Attorney General Ralph F. Boyd, Jr. on abuse of juveniles in two Mississippi youth training schools, June 19, 2003.

    When discipline turns fatal - Texas lacks tough law on prone restraint that's banned in three states, By Jonathan Osborne and Mike Ward, American Statesman, May 18, 2003

    Parents Divided Over Jamaica Disciplinary Academy, By Tin Weiner, The New York Times, June 17, 2003.

    Camp Hell - Children abused in the name of God, Correspondence from Johnny McPhail, June 12, 2003

    Brainwashing and Re-Indoctrination Programs in the Children of God/The Family
    By Stephen A. Kent, Ph.D. and Deana Hall, M.A., University of Alberta

    Texas teenager dies in Utah wilderness program, By Rich Vosepka, Associated Press, The Daily Camera, July 16, 2002

    Arcadia religious reform school accused of abuse in lawsuit, The Herald Tribune, July 10, 2002

    Straight Talk -- Drug War Casualties, By Radley Balko, FOXNews.com, May 23, 2002

    Former victims describe dangerous "therapy" at Elan School for troubled teens in Maine, May 25, 2002

    Charges filed against boot camp leaders, Christopher Markham, staff writer, West Valley View, February 20, 2002

    In search of a safe placement; one hostile reaction, December 2001

    A STUDY IN DOUBLE STANDARDS: When kids kill, it's a crime; when they die, it's an accident, Posted 9/10/01

    Letter to a supporter of boot camps and wilderness programs, Jordan Riak, August 20, 2001

    Boot Camp Directors Deny Posts, The Associated Press, July 21, 2001

    Ariz. To Appoint Boot Camp Task Force, The Associated Press, July 21, 2001

    Founder of Teen Boot Camp Probed, By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press, July 20, 2001

    (AZ) Death Spotlights Youth Boot Camps, By Alisia Blackwood, Associated Press, July 6, 2001

    (MD) Boy's Death At School A Homicide - District Heights Youth Died After a Struggle, By Jamie Stockwell, Washington Post, July 5, 2001

    (AZ) Accounts Put Darker Cloud Over Camp - Punishment results in death of 14-year-old, By Michale Janofsky, The New York Times, July 4, 2001

    (AZ) Tough Love, Tougher Death - Boot camp - The lastest in a string of questionable ventures by Charles Long, By John Dougherty, (Phoenix) New Times, July 4, 2001

    See Forced Exercise as Punishment

    (AZ) Boy, 14, dies at boot camp amid abuse allegations, Scott Thomsen The Atlantic Journal-Constitution, July 4, 2001

    The last resort -- As desperate parents try boot camp, critics claim that alternative is laced with problems, By Lorna Collier Special to the Tribune, May 27, 2001

    South Dakota: Stop Abuses of Detained Kids--Governor Must End Inhumane Practices
    A letter to South Dakota Governor William Janklow from Michael Bochenek, Counsel, Children's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch, March 6, 2001

    Camp Fear
    How Juvenile Boot Camps Abuse Troubled Kids, By Bruce Selcraig
    Source: Mother Jones, December 2000

    Texas Probes "Restraint" Death of Young Patient, New York Times, February 8, 2000

    Schools of Hard Knocks, By Andrew Leonard, Salon, Feb. 23, 1998

    Loving Them to Death: The Story of One Teenager's 'Wilderness Experience,' By Jon Krakauer, Outside magazine, October 1995

    Tough Love Proves Too Tough: The Short Life and Hard Death of a Teenager, Christopher Smith, High Country News, June 10, 1996, Paonia, Colorado

    Boot camp death prompts changes, New York Times, December 10, 2000

    DEAD TEEN'S CASE CLOSED: Involved adults walk, every one, Correspondence concerning the death of Nicholaus Contreraz at Arizona Boys Ranch from Candice Takeuchi, September 9, 2000

    Child handcuffed for three days--Boot Camp For Troubled Kids Closed, Associated Press, June 16, 2000

    ESSENTIAL READING ON THIS SUBJECT

    An American Gulag: Secret P.O.W. Camps for Teens, by Alexia Parks (2000). Available from The Education Exchange Network, Box K, Eldorado Springs, CO 80025

    A Matter of Time--How Juvenile Justice Systems Fail Kids, By David Shapinsky, www.abcnews.go.com, February 26, 2000

    HARDER TIME: California Youth Authority Shifts from Rehab to Brutality By Mark Gladstone and James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2000

    Time to stick a fork in America’s correctional boot camp boondoggle, David J. Krajicek, MSNBC, December 23, 1999

    Beat him up and do him good. Don't leave any marks, Mary Hargrove, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, June 1998

    U.S. Department of State warning about "behavior modification" facilities operating outside U.S. jurisdiction, issued May 1999.

    Teenage girl run to death in SD boot camp
    Excerpted from "Investigative Report Summary - Gina Score" Argus Leader, August [??], 1999

    "A noisy, obvious, gruesome, extended death" -- Arizona Boys Ranch charges By Inger Sandal, The Arizona Daily Star, May 4, 1999

    U.S. Justice Department says boot camps do more harm than good, From The Associated Press, June 1, 1998

    Amnesty International alleges widespread abuse of juvenile offenders in U.S., New York Times, November 17, 1998

    E-mail to PTAVE of August 18, 1998 from Cathy Sutton, mother of Michelle Sutton, 15, who died at Summit Quest Camp.

    Bob Sutton's letter to a journalist about the death of his daughter, Michelle Sutton, 15, who died at Summit Quest Camp. Copy received by PTAVE, August 17, 1998.

    "It has only happened two times to me"--Conditions in Children's Institutions, Human Rights Watch World Report 1998

    U.S. Juvenile Justice Gets Busted By Bill Alexander, Reporter for Youth Today
    From Youth Today, Vol 8, No.1, December/January 1999

    Betraying the Young: Children in the U.S. Justice System Document: Amnesty International Index: AMR 51/60/98 Public/November 1998

    Authorities close abusive school--Children "just starving to death" The Associated Press, April 29, 1999

    Tightening up on the stranglers--142 youths dead in one decade
    By The Associated Press, March 25, 1999

    Strangulation Death Occurs at Home for the Abused, By The Associated Press, March 15, 1999

    Florida camp delinquents get red ant punishment, Yahoo News, March 14, 1999



    AUTOPSY PHOTO: Nicholaus Contrarez's bruised, lacerated torso

    A Puzzling Death at Boys Ranch, By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times, June 13, 1998

    The slow, painful, pointless death of Nicholaus Contreraz, age 16, at the Arizona Boys Ranch as described in the sheriff's report, Pinal County, Arizona, April 17, 1998.

    CPS Report re: Nicholaus Contreraz, 3/6/98

    Investigation Summary-- Investigation of the Death of Nicholaus Contreraz at Arizona Boys Ranch and The Safety of Children Remaining in that Placement (Source: The Arizona Republic, 1998)

    Chief admits tragic fumble--Staff 'thought this kid was a malingerer,' he says By Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, August 30, 1998

    Dr. Christopher B. Cutter's letter of June 17, 1998 to the Los Angeles Times regarding the death of Nicholaus Contreraz at Arizona Boys Ranch

    Ron Ackert's letter of June 19, 1998 to Dr. Linda Blessing, Director, Arizona Department of Economic Security, regarding the killing of Nicholaus Contreraz

    Listening, Finally, to Nicholaus By E. J. Montini,
    The Arizona Republic, August 27, 1998

    Allegations of abuse and neglect against former employees of Arizona Boys Ranch, The Arizona Republic, August 31, 1998

    'Pattern of Abuse'-- Institution won't close, chief vows By Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, Aug. 27, 1998

    Press release from the California Department of Social Services
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--July 7, 1998
    Arizona Boys Ranch Investigation
    Department of Social Services Makes Decisions on Funding

    Five are Indicted in Arizona Youth Camp Death By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1998

    Boys Ranch employees plead innocent, By Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, October 23, 1998

    Charges dropped, for now, in death of Boys Ranch teen By Heather Urquides, The Arizona Daily Star, January 16, 1999

    Abuse of Arkansas Youth in Custody--Former DHS chief goes before legislative panel, Associated Press, September 15, 1998

    Is this Camp of Jail?
    Are parents violating the rights of their own kids when they ship them off to tough "attitude rehab"? By Adam Cohen, Time, January 26, 1998

    Child meets violent death in desert boot camp [Original title: "Hard Work For Youths At Camp"] , San Francisco Chronicle, February 18, 1992

    Boy in coma after scuffle at camp for troubled youths, San Francisco Chronicle, By Ken Hoover, Chronicle Staff Writer, February 13, 1992

    Surviving Survival Camp
    Keri J. describes her experience with the most dangerous part of "survival camp"--the people who ran it.

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Feed Your Head / Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
« on: December 20, 2011, 09:30:51 PM »
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stor ... n-centers/

Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
 
Source:
Associated Press, March 2, 2008
Title: “13,000 Abuse Claims in Juvie Centers”

Author: Holbrook Mohr
Student Researcher: Sarah Maddox
Faculty Evaluator: Barbara Bloom, PhD

In states across the country, child advocates have harshly condemned the conditions under which young offenders are housed—conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse, and even death. The US Justice Department (DOJ) has filed lawsuits against facilities in eleven states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully negligent. While the DOJ lacks the power to shut down juvenile correction facilities, through litigation it can force a state to improve its detention centers and protect the civil rights of jailed youth.

Lack of oversight and nationally accepted standards of tracking abuse make it difficult to know exactly how many youngsters have been assaulted or neglected.

In a nationally conducted survey, the Associated Press contacted each state agency that oversees juvenile correction centers and asked for information on the numbers of deaths as well as the numbers of allegations and confirmed cases of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by staff members since January 1, 2004. According to the survey, more than 13,000 claims of abuse were identified in juvenile correction centers around the country from 2004 through 2007—a remarkable total given that the total population of detainees was about 46,000 at the time the states were surveyed in 2007.

The worst physical confrontations have ended in death. At least five juveniles died after being forcibly placed in restraints in facilities run by state agencies or private facilities with government contracts since January 1, 2004.

The use of restraint techniques and devices and their too-aggressive application have long been controversial and came under intense scrutiny last year after the death of fourteen-year-old Martin Lee Anderson. A grainy video taken at a Florida boot camp in January 2006 showed several guards striking the teen while restraining him. On October 12, 2006, six guards and a nurse were acquitted of manslaughter charges after defense attorneys argued that the guards used acceptable tactics.

In Maryland, seventeen-year-old Isaiah Simmons lost consciousness and died after he was held to the floor face down at a privately owned facility that was contracted by the state. Prosecutors say the staff waited forty-one minutes after the boy was unresponsive to call for help. An attorney for one of the counselors said the men were only trying to prevent Simmons from hurting himself or someone else. A judge dismissed misdemeanor charges against five counselors. The state has appealed.

Other restraint-related deaths involve three boys—seventeen, fifteen, and thirteen years of age—in facilities in Tennessee, New York, and Georgia, respectively. At least twenty-four other juveniles died in correction centers between 2004 and 2007 from suicide and natural causes or preexisting medical conditions.

A drive to reform California’s juvenile justice system follows successful landmark litigation against the California Youth Authority (CYA) in April 2006. During litigation, advocates learned that conditions in many California county juvenile halls were as bad as those in the state CYA facilities. Yet as the appalling conditions in the CYA were revealed, officials shifted much of the population from the CYA facilities to the county juvenile halls.

In 2006, reported conditions in California juvenile halls included severe overcrowding, with teenagers sleeping floors; nonexistent educational opportunity; nonexistent mental healthcare or rehabilitative programs; isolation for over twenty-three hours a day for months straight; use of excessive force, including beatings and pepper sprayings; and inappropriate administration of medications.

Attorney Richard Ulmer states, “California law expressly requires that a juvenile hall not be regarded as a penal institution, but rather be a safe and supportive homelike environment. But many juvenile halls in the state are more like penitentiaries than homes.”1

Similar crises of institutional abuse against troubled youth are occurring in states across the nation.

Citation:

1.  Richard Ulmar, “California Juvenile Justice System in Crisis; Lawsuits to End Abuses Against Children,” PR Newswire, April 19, 2006.

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Feed Your Head / 13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers
« on: December 20, 2011, 09:25:12 PM »
13,000 abuse claims in juvie centers
http://www.ylc.org/articleDetail.php?id=51&type=article

author: HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writer
publication: AP National Story
date: 2008-03-02

COLUMBIA, Miss. - The Columbia Training School - pleasant on the outside, austere on the inside - has been home to 37 of the most troubled young women in Mississippi.
 
If some of those girls and their advocates are to be believed, it is also a cruel and frightening place.

The school has been sued twice in the past four years. One suit brought by the U.S. Justice Department, which the state settled in 2005, claimed detainees were thrown naked in to cells and forced to eat their own vomit. The second one, brought by eight girls last year, said they were subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse." Several of the detainees said they were shackled for 12 hours a day.

These are harsh and disturbing charges - and, in the end, they were among the reasons why state officials announced in February that they will close Columbia. But they aren't uncommon.

Across the country, in state after state, child advocates have deplored the conditions under which young offenders are housed - conditions that include sexual and physical abuse and even deaths in restraints. The U.S. Justice Department has filed lawsuits against facilities in 11 states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully lax and shoddy.

Still, a lack of oversight and nationally accepted standards of tracking abuse make it difficult to know exactly how many youngsters have been assaulted or neglected.

The Associated Press contacted each state agency that oversees juvenile correction centers and asked for information on the number of deaths as well as the number of allegations and confirmed cases of physical, sexual and emotional abuse by staff members since Jan. 1, 2004.

According to the survey, more than 13,000 claims of abuse were identified in juvenile correction centers around the country from 2004 through 2007 - a remarkable total, given that the total population of detainees was about 46,000 at the time the states were surveyed in 2007.

Just 1,343 of those claims of abuse identified by the AP were confirmed by various authorities. Of 1,140 claims of sexual abuse, 143 were confirmed by investigators.

Experts say only a fraction of the allegations are ever confirmed. These are some of the most troubled young people in the country and some will make up stories. But in other cases, the youth are pressured not to report abuse; often, no one believes them anyway.

Undoubtedly, juvenile correction facilities and their programs benefit many of the youth who experience them by offering substance abuse programs, educational courses and mental health counseling. And for many troubled youth, the facilities are the last hope to straighten out problems that could eventually lead them to suicide, prison or other institutions.

Still, advocates for the detainees contend that abuse by guards remains a major problem and that authorities aren't doing enough to address the situation.

In 2004, the U.S. Justice Department uncovered 2,821 allegations of sexual abuse by juvenile correction staffers. The government study included 194 private facilities, which likely accounts for the higher numbers than the AP found.

But some experts say the true number of sexual incidents is likely even higher. Some youth view sexual relationships with staff members as consensual, not as adults in positions of authority abusing their power.

Sue Burrell, an attorney for the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, recalls investigating sexual encounters between female staff and male inmates at a juvenile facility in Florida. "One of the boys I interviewed said he didn't think it was fair that his roommate had a relationship with one of the staffers and he didn't."

Other abuse is physical, and often sadistic.

For boys at the Hawaii Youth Correctional Facility, authority came in the person of 50-year-old Gilbert Hicks, and he wielded that authority emphatically.

Hicks was convicted of sexual assault in October 2005 after he "grabbed, squeezed and twisted" a boy's testicles, according to a federal lawsuit.

When the boy sought medical attention 10 days later because of pain and swelling, Hicks, who had worked at the facility for 24 years, taunted him by asking: "What, you want me to squeeze your (genitals) again?"

Hicks allegedly abused two other boys the same way.

His sentence? Five years probation and 90 days in jail to be served on weekends.

What sets the case apart from many others is the successful conviction.  Often such cases come down to the word of a guard against that of a teenager with a long criminal record, the primary reason that so few charges of abuse are confirmed and prosecuted, child advocates say.

While it is likely that incarcerated youth make false allegations of mistreatment against their guards, there are cases of abuse not being reported because "many children are afraid of what would happen if they snitch on staff," said Mark Soler, executive director of the Center for Children's Law and Policy in Washington D.C.

The worst physical confrontations can end in death. At least five juveniles died after being forcibly placed in restraints in facilities run by state agencies or private facilities with government contracts since Jan. 1, 2004.


The use of restraint techniques and devices and their too-aggressive application have long been controversial and came under intense scrutiny last year after the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.

A grainy video taken at a Florida boot camp in January 2006 shows several guards striking the teen while restraining him. Six guards and a nurse were acquitted Oct. 12 of manslaughter charges after defense attorneys argued that the guards used acceptable tactics.

In Maryland, 17-year-old Isaiah Simmons lost consciousness and died after he was held to the floor face down at a privately owned facility that was contracted by the state. Prosecutors say the staff waited 41 minutes after the boy was unresponsive to call for help.

Scott Rolle, an attorney for one of the counselors, had said the men were only trying to prevent Simmons from hurting himself or someone else.

A judge dismissed misdemeanor charges against five counselors; the state has appealed.

Other restraint-related deaths were three boys - 17, 15 and 13 - in facilities in Tennessee, New York and Georgia, respectively. At least 24 others in juvenile correction centers died since 2004 from suicide and natural causes or preexisting medical conditions.

Supervision does not have to be abusive to be problematic. The absence of supervision creates its own misery.

Advocates say sex among detainees is also a major problem in some facilities, a claim backed by government findings. A U.S. Department of Justice report described sex at the Plainfield Juvenile Correctional Facility in Indiana as "rampant."

And sometimes suicidal youth or those who want to harm themselves in other ways don't get the personal attention they need.

Mississippi's juvenile correction centers have been under the supervision of a court-appointed monitor since 2005 as part of the settlement to end the lawsuit filed by the federal government.

But a 15-year-old girl on suicide watch at Columbia Training School used a toe nail and the sharpened cap off a tube of toothpaste to carve the words "HATE ME" backward in her forearm. The girl also said she was shackled 12 hours a day, and forced to wear leg restraints to classes, meals and other activities.

Another 15-year-old girl who spent time in Columbia told the AP she was twice groped by a male guard. She said she reported the abuse.

"They told me I was lying," she said with tears streaming down her face.  "They told me that I was wrong for reporting it, that I shouldn't have brought it up."

Columbia sits atop a 2,200-acre campus with a manicured lawn that stretches out beneath the shade of oak trees. From a distance, the red-brick buildings and pastoral grounds could pass for those of a boarding school. Indeed, administrators pointed proudly to the fact that 90 percent of the girls got their general education diploma.

"We are giving them skills that they will take well into adulthood," insisted Richard Harris, a deputy administrator with the Mississippi Department of Human Services - a few weeks before the state announced it was closing Columbia "due to issues ranging from adequate staffing to quality of care, and the desire to most efficiently spend taxpayer dollars."

While officials in many states complain that funding can be a major challenge -  salaries for guards in Mississippi's juvenile facilities start at $18,000 a year - it will take more than cash to fix the problems.

"What could be done to minimize or reduce these problems?" asked Melissa Sickmund, with the Pittsburgh-based National Center for Juvenile Justice. "Training. Oversight."

Columbia had about 120 staff members and a $5.8 million budget and at times housed only a few dozen girls. At that rate, it costs about $598 a day to house a girl, according to a study by Timothy J. Roche, an expert consultant hired by the state.

There are success stories.

Nancy Molever, an Arizona Juvenile Department of Corrections spokeswoman, said it would have been difficult to improve conditions there - or meet recommendations made by the federal government - without a willingness "to change the culture of the agency" that oversees the juvenile facilities.

Arizona recently emerged from a lawsuit the Justice Department filed after three youngsters committed suicide. Arizona invested $8 million to $10 million in facility improvements and increased the starting annual salary of youth correctional officers to over $30,000, Molever said. The state has also been weeding out employees slow to conform to the new rules, Molever said, but the downside is more employee turnover, which is already a problem nationwide.

Officials in Missouri, which has one of the most highly regarded juvenile correction systems in the country, agree that it takes more than money to run a safe facility.

"It's just a different approach that we take. It's a treatment approach," said Ana Margarita Compain-Romero, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Social Services. "In other states, they take a more punitive approach, more like corrections."

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Nicholas Kristof/ NY Times Columnist
http://www.facebook.com/kristof

We tend to focus on sex trafficking abroad, but we don't have the moral authority to complain about others unless we clean up our own act. This article illuminates the problem at home -- and why it sometimes really does amount to slavery. Time for emancipation, right?

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/7002 ... d=fb_share

Here is the article in its entirety.

ATLANTA — Maybe it was the defiant glint in her eye. Maybe it was the way she dragged her feet on the way to join the other underage girls in tube tops and 8-inch heels hawking their bodies in a bad part of Atlanta. Keisha Head wasn't sure. But somehow Sir Charles always knew when she was considering trying to escape.

"You better not be thinkin' 'bout leaving," the pimp would say. "You know what's gonna happen."
 
Sometimes, if he sensed Keisha needed reminding, the big man would shove the then-16-year-old into his Mercedes-Benz and drive her to the cemetery. There he'd strip off her clothes and leave her curled up next to a headstone, sobbing, to contemplate how nobody would notice if she — a runaway and a prostitute — went missing.

"I know grave diggers," he'd say when he came to collect her 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour later. "We could just throw you in a hole when they're burying someone else."

At the time, Keisha, now 31, was considered a delinquent. Now lawmakers are beginning to recognize she was a slave.

Their stories are as different as their backgrounds. There's the boys choir from Zambia that was forced to sing seven concerts a day then locked in a trailer in Texas while their benefactors collected the cash. There's the case of 400 Thai agricultural workers who came to Seattle looking for salaried work picking apples and wound up shut in wooden shacks with no pay.

Researchers estimate close to half of today's victims of human trafficking are people like Keisha who have been coerced into the sex industry.

Sex slaves are the most profitable slave in the modern world, according to Siddharth Kara, a fellow on human trafficking at Harvard University and author of "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery." On average, a sex slave costs $5,000 in the United States and, before escaping or dying, generates profits exceeding $135,000. There is little risk for exploiters because, more often than not, it's girls like Keisha — and not the pimps who manipulate them — who wind up behind bars.

There are some state and federal laws in place to fight the practice, but prosecutions and convictions are rare.

According to an analysis of anti-slavery laws released last week by the anti-slavery organization Shared Hope International, more than half of states don't have legislation in place to make sure victims like Keisha aren't being punished instead of cared for. Even in places with strong anti-slavery laws, victims go unnoticed because law enforcement officials confuse the crime, which is officially called human trafficking, with smuggling immigrants across the border. Many still see people like Keisha as criminals instead of victims.
 
With job descriptions ranging in scope from prostitute to waiter to maid, more than 150,000 people in the United States are living in slavery, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
 
"We're only just starting to wake up and recognize this problem," said Alicia Wilson, policy counsel for Shared Hope International. "Awareness is low, law enforcement isn't where it should be and there are almost no services for victims."

Changing Perceptions

When Keisha met Sir Charles, she was living in an abandoned building in Atlanta and hadn't eaten for several days. Born to a schizophrenic mother, she had spent most of her life wandering through foster homes — 42 in all — until a child welfare official told her the state mental hospital was her only remaining option. She ran away. Sir Charles gave her food and replaced her ragged, dirty clothes. She found herself telling him things she'd never told anyone: how she'd been molested, how she had gotten pregnant and how, because she had no money, she had sorrowfully given the baby up. He dried her tears and offered to take her to visit the 6-month-old.

"I felt like I'd finally found a home," she said.

Three days later Sir Charles asked Keisha to turn her first trick. She refused.

"You know that little girl you took me to see?" he said. "I can make sure something happens to her."

Because of a deep-seated perception that slavery is a Third World issue, states have had a hard time getting the ball rolling on anti-trafficking initiatives, said Texas state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, who has been at the forefront of the legislative battle against modern-day slavery. When she first suggested an anti-slavery law in 2001, "I was patted on the back and told, 'Little lady, that doesn't happen here,'?" she said. The movement started out small, with just a few states taking a look at slavery. Over the past decade, 48 states have criminalized human trafficking. In 2005, states passed nine new laws, then, in 2008, 13. In 2011, legislatures approved 42 bills.


Van de Putte pushed for state legislation because she believes states are better equipped to detect the crime. It's local police who are on the ground, responding to domestic violence and prostitution calls, she said.

"They are the ones who are going to be able to peel back the layers to figure out whether this is actually a case of human trafficking," she said. "The feds can't do that. They aren't even here."

Texas gets high scores from advocates for its anti-slavery laws, as do Illinois and Washington. But in a comprehensive analysis of trafficking laws released last week, Shared Hope International gave 26 states failing grades. Many states, like Utah, have good criminal statutes in place but don't offer protection or services to victims. West Virginia and Wyoming have yet to address the issue at all.

When it comes to sex trafficking, oftentimes it's the victim who is prosecuted while the captor goes free, Wilson said.


"Shared Hope International argues, regardless of whether or not there is proof of coercion, minors should never be charged with prostitution because they cannot legally consent to have sex. While federal law protects children from prostitution prosecution, only three states do the same."

"We need to be shifting the mind-set, taking this from a delinquency proceeding to a child protective proceeding," Wilson said. "These are not criminals. These are vulnerable children."


Sir Charles expected Keisha to bring in $1,000 a night. If she didn't meet quota one night, she had to make it up the next. If she failed, Sir Charles beat her. She never saw a penny.

"People always ask me, 'Why did you stay?'?" Keisha said. "I didn't have a choice. Sir Charles was well-connected in the community. He knew all the runaway hideouts. I had nowhere to go."

Enforcing the law

People who might have helped Keisha jeered at her instead. They saw her, a teenager in a tight miniskirt, on the side of the road, and rolled down their windows and yelled at her to "Go home!"

Even the police overlooked her plight.

One day, after all the other girls had left with clients, a patrol car pulled up.

Looking her up and down, a half-smile on his lips, the officer inside observed, "What are you doing here? You belong down on Pastry Street. That's where all the pretty girls are."

Even for those on the front lines, human trafficking remains a foggy issue. While the vast majority of states have criminalized both labor and sex trafficking, less than half require law enforcement to complete training. In states with anti-trafficking statutes, 44 percent of law enforcement personnel and 50 percent of prosecutors don't know the legislation exists, according to a recent survey from the University of Chicago. Prosecutors who had heard of the laws indicated they were reluctant to use them because, "Sometimes it's easier to prosecute it as something else."

There's always a little lag between the time new laws are passed and prosecutions start piling up, said Kathleen Kim, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, who studies human trafficking. For example, the Federal Human Trafficking Prevention Act of 2000 revamped the definition of human trafficking to include a variety of coercion tactics, including psychological manipulation. But most of the cases filed since have continued to reflect the older laws, which required prosecutors to provide proof of bodily harm. Federal, state and local law enforcement officials need to get up to speed on the broad definition of coercion, she said.

"They're using 10 different control tactics and we're only catching them for one," she said.

 
A big part of the problem is a simple lack of awareness, said Bradley Myles, executive director of Polaris Project, one of the nation's largest anti-slavery organizations.

"It's a hidden crime," Myles said. "Traffickers do their best not to be detected. If we're not looking, it's very possible we won't see."

Law enforcement, prosecutors and service providers get hung up trying to define human trafficking, according to the University of Chicago survey. Many incorrectly confuse human trafficking with smuggling or believe only immigrants are affected.
 
"We're not talking about people paying for an illegal ride over the border," Myles said. "We're talking about people being held against their will and being forced to work."

Keisha, who is now a spokeswoman for the Georgia anti-trafficking organization A Future. Not a Past., describes the work she did for Sir Charles as "being raped repeatedly."

"If you don't want to do it," she said, "it's rape."

One night, a client pulled a gun on her, raped her and stole her money. She emerged so bruised and battered she could barely walk. When she returned to Sir Charles, he sent her straight to the street to earn back the cash she'd lost.

That was the day she realized — no matter what Sir Charles threatened — things couldn't get worse. That was the day she found the courage to escape.

It took years and a stint in prison to assemble any kind of self-esteem. But in the end, Keisha realized she was more than just the abuse she'd suffered.

"I am a powerful woman with a voice," she said.

Now she spends her days testifying before legislators, advocating for tougher laws and higher penalties. She's living proof of the reality of modern-day slavery. Proof is tattooed across her shoulders in curling, black script: "Sir Charles."

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Tacitus' Realm / Tea Baggers Shut the fuck up.
« on: November 16, 2011, 10:10:48 PM »
From a friend, from a friend.

 
Quote
Tea Baggers Shut the fuck up.

We know you want to end taxation. We know you don’t care that every reputable economist on the goddamned fucking planet has tried to explain to you inbred sisterfuckers that austerity budgets and tax breaks for billionaires and transnational corporations makes joblessness worse, not better. It makes the recession worse, not better. It makes the deficit worse, not better.

But you don’t care what experts have to say, do you, knuckle-draggers, because all you care about is what makes you feel better. And what makes you feel better, apparently, is waddling up and down the street with powdered wigs and little flags and misspelled signs with pictures of the president wearing a turban, and you think that makes your opinion equal to those of educated experts who do research for a living. Don’t you get how utterly fucking bug-stupid that makes you look?

We know you want to drill for oil in Yellowstone and downtown Detroit and fucking Disneyland and two miles down through the fucking Antarctic ice cap and on Mars and every goddamned place you can think of, until the entire solar system is a polluted piece of steaming shit just like fucking Texas.

We know you email each other ape jokes and watermelon jokes and other racist Ku Klux Klan fucking bullshit–just what, three years?– after screaming TREASON! at anyone who dared disagree with George W. Bush, and two years after deciding to tell everyone you’re not actually Republican because that would mean you voted for the moron who destroyed our economy.

Guess what? The 80 percent of us who think you’re a bunch of fucking retarded clowns are sick and tired of hearing about you. The 80 percent of us who think education is actually a good thing are tired of hearing you pontificate about shit you don’t know because you can barely spell your own names.

How you hate Affirmative Action until it’s used to give preferential treatment to white students over students from Asia, or preferential treatment to the underachieving white children of the wealthiest donors. What a fucking bunch of racist hypocrites.

How you think lesbians have taken over the public university system—despite the fact that all the trustees and presidents and football coaches and most of the professors and most of the students and every evil fucker in any position of power happens to be in possession of a snow white penis.

How you think unions are the bullies with all the power and all the money while corporations are the victims with none of the power and none of the money, with no incentive to screw you because for some reason you’d rather pay them double, triple, quadruple for the same fucking services your taxes used to provide before they were used to pay for tax cuts to people who own yachts and jets. You dumb fucking idiots.

Meanwhile not a single one of you can say a single specific thing about any specific policy that stupid bitch Bachman has ever advocated. But you will of course scream at the top of your lungs that calling her bitch is sooooo wrong because Lord knows you’ve never called Hillary the c-word after wiping the beer foam off the ends of your snouts. What a bunch of misogynistic hypocrites.

Liberal media, huh? One million Latinos march for immigration reform in Los Angeles, but on every donkeypissing television station across America all we see is a tribe of twenty assholes in plaid picketing on a street corner in Arizona because they flunked economics AND history in high school and don’t know the first thing about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, the history of our court system, OR the history of the last eight goddamned years in this country we love more than you do. Yes, more than you do—because we care enough about it to protect everyone’s freedoms—not just our own. Everyone’s property, not just our own. Everyone’s tax money, not just our own.

Shut the fuck up for five fucking minutes, just for once. A town hall meeting is not for screamers. No one wants to smell your Cheetos breath from across the room. No one wants to smell the sweat stains under your armpits as you flail, spraying spittle. A town hall meeting is for people to discuss things, not scream. Stop fucking playing the victim when the SEIU dares to use YOUR OWN goddamned town hall tactics against you. Just because most of the rest of us fear all you scary, hooded, screaming, violent bastards doesn’t mean we all have to just sit there and take it. Fuck you. We want you to go away, back to your basements, back to your generators and your canned peas and your mistranslated bibles and your pregnant daughters, waiting for the rapture while you leave the rest of us the fuck alone.

You lost the goddamned Presidential election, you Tea Bagging Republican bastards.

Go the Fuck away!

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