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Like #ParisHilton, I Am A Survivor Of A Troubled Teen Treatment School And It Was A Nightmare- My school #EscuelaCaribe was religious, featured in @kidnpd4christ @BreakingCodeSi1 @huffpost #breakingcodesilence #EmptyThePews @C_Stroop @parishilton bit.ly/3jzZXsq

I discovered that in 1979 both my school & #ProvoCanyon were the focus of a congressional inquiry , 10 years before I was sent away, 2 years before Hilton was born @BreakingCodeSi1 @huffpost #breakingcodesilence #EmptyThePews @C_Stroop @parishilton bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Activist Kenneth Wooden censured my school, then known as Caribe Vista, for having low-paid, untrained staff who “brainwashed” students, put them into solitary and beat them. IN 1979. @BreakingCodeSi1 #breakingcodesilence @C_Stroop @parishilton bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Wooden condemned #ProvoCanyon for kidnapping students from their bedrooms, drugging them with Thorazine, and throwing them into solitary confinement. 2 years before @parishilton was born. #ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence @C_Stroop bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Many facilities believe adolescents must be broken through isolation, harsh rules, and punishment in order to be fixed, something called “tough love,” tactics based on CIA brainwashing techniques.#ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence @breakingcodesilence1 bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Students are forced to police each other’s behavior and attack each other in group therapy, a methodology derived from what has been deemed ”the most dangerous cult in America, Synanon." See @maiasz @paulmorantz for more. @BreakingCodeSi1 @ParisHilton bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Terror was used as enforcement. There was a constant threat of being beaten or punished for standing up for one’s self or others. We were forced to make up false confessions. #ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence @breakingcodesilence1 @kidnapped4christ bit.ly/3jzZXsq

To survive, I cut almost all contacts & became someone else. I felt fortunate compared to some of my peers, who suffered from various addictions, were later imprisoned, died by suicide or otherwise died violently. #ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence bit.ly/3jzZXsq

The troubled teen industry remains unregulated because of political connections. Mel Sembler, founder of Straight, Inc., is a longtime Republican donor. #ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence @BreakingCodeSi1 bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) founded the private equity firm Bain Capital, which owns CRC Health Group, a national chain of treatment centers linked to at least 6 questionable deaths as of 2013. #ThisIsParis #breakingcodesilence @BreakingCodeSi1 bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Romney finance co-chair Robert Lichfield founded the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), which included #ProvoCanyon. #ThisIsParis @ParisHilton @BreakingCodeSi1 bit.ly/3jzZXsq @HuffPost

My school, #EscuelaCaribe, subject of the memoir ”Jesus Land” & @kidnpd4christ shut down in 2011, only to reopen as Caribbean Mountain Academy. #ThisIsParis @BreakingCodeSi1
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Mike Pence fundraised for parent organization Lifeline Youth & Family Services, despite Lifeline being cited for failing to provide educational programs/accounts of violence at a stateside facility. #ThisIsParis bit.ly/3jzZXsq #breakingcodesilence @BreakingCodeSi1

At least 145 children have died at residential programs. In June, Cornelius Fredericks, a 16-year-old Black teenager, died in June after being restrained at a for-profit facility. #justiceforcornelius #breakingcodesilence @BreakingCodeSi1 #ThisIsParis bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Despite allegations of rampant ill treatment and death, troubled teen program VisionQuest has received millions in federal funding to house migrant children. #breakingcodesilence @BreakingCodeSi1 #ThisIsParis bit.ly/3jzZXsq @ParisHilton

Since the release of #ThisIsParis, thousands of survivors have joined @ParisHilton in sharing their stories tagged #breakingcodesilence, a nod to the organization pushing for regulation. @BreakingCodeSi1 bit.ly/3jzZXsq

Thank you, @ParisHilton @alexhaggiagdean for #ThisIsParis <3 Please sign our petition. @BreakingCodeSi1
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