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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Public Sector Gulags => Topic started by: Antigen on April 08, 2006, 08:07:00 PM

Title: Maia Szalavits on, among other things, Bay County Boot Camp
Post by: Antigen on April 08, 2006, 08:07:00 PM

           

                04.07.2006 at 04:46pm
               

READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/of-chimps-and-children_b_18686.html)
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                03.25.2006 at 12:14pm
               

front-page story (http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/25/news_pf/State/Clock_may_be_ticking_.shtml) that the state's Criminal Justice Appropriations Committee --importantly, with the support of the Governor and the sheriffs who run the boot camps--has recommended...
               
               

                   Drug Testing and Deception (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/drug-testing-and-deceptio_b_17712.html)

            

Slate has a story this week about the failure of school READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/drug-testing-and-deceptio_b_17712.html)

            

            
           

       

      

           

                03.15.2006 at 12:08pm
               

not from sickle cell trait (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031400405.html?nav=hcmodule)....
               
               

                   It's Jon Stewart's World, We Only Live Here (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/its-jon-stewarts-world_b_17124.html)

            

Sometimes, I can't believe that the real news isn't fake. A recent Google Alert brought me READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/its-jon-stewarts-world_b_17124.html)

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                03.10.2006 at 11:35am
               

trashes John Tierney (http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=AePNHqAn0e6Z6ylVTAoTAy%3D%3D) for being "boring" and "utterly predictable" because of his libertarian politics. It bemoans the fact that he has done seven recent columns "lamenting" the war on drugs.

What it does not...
               
               

                   More Media Mistakes on Women, Alcohol and Addiction (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/more-media-mistakes-on-wo_b_16728.html)

            

The misguided media coverage of women, alcohol and other drugs continues to escalate. Recently, READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/more-media-mistakes-on-wo_b_16728.html)
               
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                02.27.2006 at 03:53pm
               

coming out (http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13964033.htm): the routine use of "pain compliance" techniques, the forced inhalation of ammonia, the kneeing, wrist-twisting, "hammer...
               
               

                   Boot Camp Death Connections (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/boot-camp-death-connectio_b_16205.html)

            

When fourteen-year-old Martin Anderson died after being beaten by guards in a Florida boot camp in January, it seemed as though the media would portray it as just another "isolated incident," another case where tough love was taken "too far"...
               
               

                   Tough Love 3: Questions (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/tough-love-3-questions_b_16121.html)

            

In my last posts on this topic, I explored what I'd learned when researching my new book, READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/tough-love-3-questions_b_16121.html)
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                02.21.2006 at 01:20pm
               

READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/bush-administration-links_b_16088.html)
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                02.15.2006 at 07:32pm
               

READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/teen-boot-camp-death_b_15757.html)
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                02.13.2006 at 07:42pm
               

READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/media-botches-drug-trends_b_15604.html)
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                02.10.2006 at 03:18pm
               

READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/part-ii-genuinely-serio_b_15425.html)
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                02.03.2006 at 03:36pm
               

The Trouble With Tough Love (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012800062_pf.html), and ever since, I've been trying to handle the onslaught of email from terrified parents seeking alternative help for troubled teens.
 
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                   Targeting Teen Tarts (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/targeting-teen-tarts_b_15011.html)

            

This week's New York Magazine contains a curious cover story, focusing on a group of Stuyvesant High School students who call themselves "READ POST (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/targeting-teen-tarts_b_15011.html)
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                01.18.2006 at 06:52pm
               

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