jwpar1701

Hey rjm2013! Good to see you on here! So glad to see things going well for you :)

When we were there nobody did...there were stories in the past of people trying to escape, but the punishments for getting caught were STIFF. Hair shaved, solitary confinement, corporal punishments...you weren't allowed to speak to other students, had to ask permission to enter and exit any room, to sit down, to eat, etc. You essentially became an abused unperson if you were caught trying to escape.

Uh, alonelyargonaut, I'm not sure you're aware, but Kate has never seen the Nic Cage "Wicker Man". I begged her to watch the "Not The Bees" scene. I will educate her forthwith.

Post-production coordinator of the doc here. I actually never even knew the "troubled teen" industry existed before working on this doc. But it and the camps it spawns are a billion-dollar industry...the problem is much wider-ranging and more insidious than I ever imagined. Kids die at these camps, either due to neglect or active malice, and untold others are changed and traumatized forever.

Hah...my answer and Kate's is, "How long you got?" It's hard to pick after a while. That's depressing, but it's true. For me personally, I would have to say the forced exercise. Kids would be made to run until they coughed up blood. One kid had a prosthetic leg...a PROSTHETIC leg...and they made him run until he had bloody sores where his leg met the prosthesis. Bonus points: they would TAKE THE LEG AWAY if he put it back in the "wrong" place at night...and he would have to "earn" it back.