It was one of the first books describing the Troubled Teen Industry in the United States. Despite tougher legislation, despite increased awareness horrible conditions are still found in private for-business programs.Fact is that businessmen with a focus on easy earned money based on little effort and huge profit will enter any market regardless of how many lives they will destroy in the process.
Teenagers have been marked for life, some have even been killed. Parents who were acting in the best interest of their children were cheated out of every cent they had. Entire communities were left to bankruptcy when these businessmen skipped their project in the middle of the night.
The book came out in year 2000 and despite improvements things have happened too slowly because the conditions described in the book can be found in residential programs today.
Source:
An American GULAG : Secret P.O.W. Camps for Teens (by Alexia Parks, Amazon Book store, ISBN-10 1930418019)
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