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)