Petition to Shut Down Provo Canyon School - please sign

[Anonymous]

I keep hearing about this "hair dance".  What is it?

[Anonymous]

I went to a school like this named New Beginnings Girls Academy. I know what this kind of treatment to children and teenagers will do and how it will scar them for life. I'm going through reconciling right now and have only been out of the home for 1 and a half. I want to see all places that treat and abuse children this way get closed and closed for good.

[Anonymous]

I had a really hard time at Provo Canyon School.  The worst of the WORST was the staff in the disciplinary unit the way they would instigate the kids in to "acting out." It appeared to me (though I was only 13 or 14 and I am now 28) that they (the staff) were doing this to "restrain" us witch consisted of arm bars leg, locks and choke holds. If you are a 13-17 year old from 75-180 lbs. and you have 2-6 staff most of whom were men and 180+ lbs "restraining" a kid what in gods name would compel you to dislocate a child's arm or tackle a child with such force that his face looks like minced meat from carpet burn, so bad that the child wanted to go in to seclusion/isolation so as to avoid the ridicule from other staff and his own peers. Or even the humiliation of having to work off "points" by standing for hrs upon hrs (for weeks or even months!) Now I'm not claiming that much of this happen to me (I did my share of standing) but I did see some dreadful things that I know go against the Geneva Convention and even some laws and these things were perpetrated by the staff the adults WTF Id like to see where some of my peers ended up or how bad that place bent those minds, kids like Smallwood and my buddy Chip and that kid that always had bowel problems (I wish I could remember his name cause he was a good kid and a good friend) If that place is shut down I want to be there when it gets torn down (Id like to see it burn and explode in a ball of fire)
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[Anonymous]

Now what? There are 600 signatures, what's next?

[Anonymous]

Once planned an escape from the PCS 'orientation' unit, for which I was beaten, stripped and locked in the 'prescription room' for 3 days.  This was a closet painted bright white with huge sunlamps in a cage in the ceiling.  I eventually turned red all over my body and my eyes swelled shut, after which I began suffering agonizing hallucinations which torture me to this day.  4 months after my experience a riot took place in the orientation unit and some boys escaped, the ACLU tried to shut the place down then, but the power of the mormon church kept it alive.  During the immediate aftermath of the breakout I was made to shred documents for 8 hours a day for weeks prior to my release.  I had no idea until now that this fight continues, but anything I can do to help I certainly will.  These people scarred me for life!

[Anonymous]

i went to new beginnings girls academy for 5 years and i have to say even though i dont agree with all the rules, the academy really helped me. i was on drugs and my life was totally out of control, and they helped me straighten things out. just because you guys didnt like the home you shouldnt talk it down. your out now so leave the home alone.

[Anonymous]

Did you read the post above you?  :roll:

[Anonymous]

Places like this should be SHUT DOWN.  They ARE NOT therapy.  They are places of torture where after kids "get out," they suffer years of physical and psychological trauma: depression, PTSD to name a few.  I cannot understand why ANY government that espouses a democratic philosophy and ANY good parent that wants the "best," for their child would send their child there.  Healthy individuals are shaped by positive and healthy experiences, PCS and programs like it ARE NEITHER.  They aren't healthy or positive.  They are an affront to all that is good because they strip the human being of their dignity.  NO HUMAN BEING SHOULD EVER BE TREATED THE WAY THEY TREAT HUMAN BEINGS AT PCS.  Assaulting kids, injecting them with mind-numbing drugs, locking them in a room for days to urinate on themselves, forced labor...IS NOT THERAPY IT'S TORTURE!  SHUT PCS AND ALL PROGRAMS LIKE IT DOWN!