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si12345 t1_j61fpyd wrote

Reply to comment by Chav in Boarding school ignored teen’s sickness complaints before she died, ex-staff say by ninjascotsman

I know several people who work at and others who went to DRA, and in Utah there are plenty of these fucked up places in Utah

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Resfebermpls t1_j62hhcg wrote

There’s a podcast that focuses specifically on these places in Utah because of how prevalent they are there. I think it’s called Sent Away.

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Pure-Kaleidoscope759 t1_j62xzsi wrote

These facilities often seek states with minimal or no regulation so they can get away with abuse.

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tiptoeintotown t1_j63vcc1 wrote

Do you remember a show on TV, wanna say Fox, where a group of very young children was dropped off in the Utah wilderness and they had to build a village, more or less, Lord of the Flies style? It was in the mid 2000s.

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ImpossibleTax t1_j64106m wrote

CBS Kid Nation? I think it was New Mexico.

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tiptoeintotown t1_j645od6 wrote

Yes!!!! Thank you!

That show was absolutely wild. I was in shock watching it back then.

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IDWBAForever t1_j6472vz wrote

JonTron did a video about the show, and not only that, he managed to track down one of the kids who was on the show at the time for an interview. You should definitely check out both videos if you're interested in Kid Nation.

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tiptoeintotown t1_j64i8l1 wrote

I remember that little guy saying “I think I’m gonna die out here”. I hope it’s him.

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darthjoey91 t1_j64ku40 wrote

That was Kid Nation, and it was comparatively much better than "troubled teen camps".

And that was at the Bonanza Film Ranch in New Mexico. Same place Alec Baldwin killed that woman.

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The_Barnanator t1_j645h1v wrote

Kid Nation on CBS. It was in the town of Bonanza, New Mexico. Show actually got cancelled because it was clear they were breaking even the lax child labor laws of New Mexico

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mdmd33 t1_j65hqlm wrote

I spent a week in Utah for work…never fucking again..

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radicalelation t1_j6584kk wrote

My time in a couple of those places were shitty at points, but the stories from kids who transferred from worse facilities than mine were always horrifying.

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