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Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.

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[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

I hope it has some effect. Those facilities are basically MKUltra child torture facilities, it's absolutely horrifying. I learned about it through Trueanon's series The Game as Brace also got sent to one brace-dark-cowboy .

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

CWwhen i was 15 and suicidal, i was in a teen psyc ward unit at a christian hospital for a couple weeks. not exactly a torture facility, but the way some of the staff treated kids who didn't fall 100% in line was ridiculous

we shared a common room TV with netflix, disney plus, etc, where anything worse than PG was banned, yet people were always breaking this rule (i guess they didn't realize they could easily set age restricted profiles??)

one day, an obviously neurodivergent 13 yo girl was playing something PG-13, and refusing to turn it off when the staff lady confronted her. instead of deescalating, staff started raising her voice and arguing, and tried to forcibly grab the remote from her pocket. the girl was yelling and hiding under the table.. so the staff's next logical move was to call security, who forced her to swallow a sedative, then carried her body to lock her in the "quiet room." they made us all go to bed an hour early as it was happening.

have a lot of stories from that place and it wasn't all bad, but definitely were some times like that. i remember that lady being like, "you're so quiet and behaved, i wish all these kids could be like that.." lady i had crippling anxiety disorder among other things, i wasn't quiet because i was respected you

[-] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago

I read about this place. I'm shocked that it's still allowed to be open. I'm hoping this might close it, but I'm probably hoping for too much.

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

Founder: Matthew Israel

Are we still doing nominative determinism?

[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago
[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 22 points 1 week ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

He looks like young Frank Klepacki

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

His first name was Семён which is pronounced Semyon, not Semen.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I know but it's still funny

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

As if he's capable of doing anything at this point.

[-] AnExcellentSteelHorse@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Someone posted a link to this autobiographical comic about one of these schools on hexbear a while ago, I clicked on it an basically immediately spent the rest of the day finishing it. Completely horrifying and fascinating.

https://elan.school/

Content warnings for pretty much everything you'd expect from a true story about this incredibly abusive institution. Harrowing read.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

elan school is horrific and also very well illustrated and told

a lot of it seems outlandish until you start reading other peoples accounts and realize that he is telling the truth. that is how that place was

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah this is one of the most horrifying pieces of media I've ever consumed, it really does need content warnings. This disturbed me far more than any horror movie, because everything in it is real.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

I still think about it a lot.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Imagine doing this to your kid. Imagine paying money to do this to your kid

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The fucked up thing is the way they keep the kids from telling their family what is really happening to them. Like a fascist government, monitoring all correspondence, even when the family comes to see him, it’s totally 1. fake, coached things for him to say and 2. monitored at all times and can be ended at any time.

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Every time I hear about any part of this system, I feel sick

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