Increasingly, Internet Activism Helps Shutter Abusive 'Troubled Teen' Boot Camps - CAFETY quoted!

Tuesday, April 05 2011 Maia Szalavitz | TIME
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For the last 40 years, teens with drug problems, learning disabilities and other behavioral issues have been sent to residential facilities to endure "tough love" techniques that are widely known to include methods of outright physical and psychological abuse. Whether labeled as boot camps, emotional-growth schools, behavior modification programs or wilderness programs, these organizations have operated without federal oversight, and state regulation of the schools ranges from lax to nonexistent. Now, however, individual critics of the programs are using the Internet to find each other and mobilize, and are bringing change. Read more
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