644. Kazenoko Gakuen

Kazenoko Gakuen also known as School for Children of the Wind, on Kosagi Island in Japan became known to the public when 2 students died of heatstroke after they were locked into a container as punishment for their behavior in school.

That is an awful slow way to die.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• STUDENTS PUNISHED TO DEATH\ TWO LOCKED-UP TEENS DIE OF HEATSTROKE (News & Record Greensboro, The associated press)
• Deadly discipline targeted (The Daily Reporter from Greenfield,)

643. Hiroshima Juvenile Training School

In 2002 a number of teachers at this reform school was arrested due to allogations of violence conducted upon the teenagers contained at the facility.

One of the sources states:

One of them is suspected of showering a 17-year-old boy with cold water and forcing him to wear a paper diaper in front of his friends.

Another allegedly shoved a detergent container into the mouth of a 16-year-old boy, saying, “Swallow this and die.” A third allegedly hit a 17-year-old in the face, kicked him and then caused him to become incontinent by refusing to allow him to use the bathroom.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager

Sources:

• Reformatory violence (The Japan times)
• Abuse at reform school (SG Forums)

642. Ai Mental School

Ai Mental School was a the time of the sources placed in Nagoya, Japan.

The employees were arrested after a 26 year old man died after he was handcuffed and forced to the facility. Teenagers were found at the school which seemed to specialize themselves in confining people urged by the families of the victims.

It could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• Nagoya NPO head held over captive’s death (The Japan Times)
• Totsuka Yacht School case illuminates the problem of reform schools: “Lord of the Flies” institutionalized? (Education in Japan Community blog)

641. Wellspring Academy

Wellspring Academy in Sutherlin, Virginia was closed in 2003. The owner Bob Gluhareff shot himself after he was sentenced to prison

A local newspaper wrote:

And Bob Gluhareff, who had headed the now defunct Wellspring Academy in the Sutherlin community for disturbed youth, was sentenced to 30 months in jail and ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution. The sentencing came after Gluhareff had been charged with 53 counts of tax, wire, mail and bank fraud back in 2006. However, earlier this year, he had pleaded guilty to two charges of bank fraud and one each to mail and tax fraud.

It is safe to say based on the ruling in the court that it could not have been fun to be there as a teenager.

Sources:

• Wellspring Academy, Bob Gluhareff, Cindy Thomas, Chris Chris (Fornits Home for Wayward Web Fora)
• News and Record

640. Piedmont Behavioral Health Center, LLC

Piedmont Behavioral Health Center is a residential treatment center in Leesburg. An article states that the facility is used as a store room for teenagers in the foster care system where teenagers are moved around without a long-term plan.

November 2017 a teenager was found dead at the facility. Something indicate that it cannot be a fun place to be as a teenager.

Sources:

• Outsourcing Troubled Kids (The Washington City Paper)
• Admissions at North Spring health facility halted after resident’s death (Loudoun Times-Mirror)

639. Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch

Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch claims that they have changed over the years and that is good because it was a bad place in the past. Abuse – even sexual – among the children, violence committed by adults is just some of the issues, the teenagers in the past had to deal with.

Now they even want to name a dorm after one of the persons who was responsible for the violence. Was it not better that they named it after one of the persons who sought to that the place was regulated by the legislation ending the abuse?

Safe to say that it was not a fun place for a teenager to stay in the past.

Sources:

• AGN EXCLUSIVE: Former Congressman Bill Sarpalius details suffering abuse at Boys Ranch (Amarillo Globe News)
• Amarillo-area Boys Ranch apologizes for decades of physical, sexual abuse of at-risk youths (Dallas News)
• Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch acknowledges, apologizes for decades of physical, sexual abuse (Lubbock Online)