'For seven days a week we were trapped in that warehouse. It was like the Hunger Games.'
Caption: BRAT CAMP FEATURE The multi-billion dollar troubled teen industry sees tens of thousand American youngsters put through harsh and gruelling ‘treatment’ every year. Known as ‘brat camps’, these initiatives promise to iron out kids who are violent, lawbreaking or or abusing drugs and alcohol – among other behavioural problems. However, understandably, they are also huge controversial.
There were no doors on the toilet stalls and you would be given three squares of toilet paper when you needed to go. You were watched at all times. We would sing adapted preschool songs which was all part of the brainwashing: “Here at Straight, feel great. Nine to nine, feel fine.” You had to sit there – ramrod straight with both feet flat on the ground. There were also humiliation tactics – like “motivating”. If we wanted to talk, we had to raise our hands over our heads.
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