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30/10/2022  

916. Crockett State School

Crockett State School was a youth prison that closed in 2011. Official reason was budget cuts.

Various sources speak of a death of a certain 17-year-old Demetrius Jeffries August 26, 1997. March 16, 2009 a 14-year old boy which was not identified in the media was found dead. Apparently he managed to hang himself using his underwear. At least that is the official reports as told in newspaper articles.

Other articles speak of relationships between detainees and the adult employees taking a nature which was a crime. Other reports speak of the use of restraint used as a weapon of fear.

Of course it was a prison and it was not a nice place to be as a teenager.

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14/06/2020  

789. New Lisbon State School

Today the facility is called New Lisbon Developmental Center. Beside New Lisbon State School other names were used “Four Mile Colony”, “Colony for Boys” and Vineland State School.

Today 2 boys remains missing: Steven Eugene Anderson and David Williams has not been found. Foul play has not been established but then again. Without any trace of them, who might know what happened to them.

Back in the day abuse took place at the facility. Rapes took place. It must have been an awful place. At some point the authorities decided to change that but when it happened, I have not been able to find out.

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

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21/05/2020  

785. Union Juvenile Residential Facility

Union Juvenile Residential Facility located in Raiford, Florida was notified by the state that the children in their care would be removed after a battery case.

The facility is owned by Sequel TSI who had similar issues with their facilities in Utah.

It cannot be fun to be there as a teenager.

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10/06/2019  

755. Mount Carmel Industrial School

Mount Carmel Industrial School was located in Moate in Ireland.

It was a place where the local child welfare authorities could outsource their responsibilities to. Adults who survived the ordeal being placed there as children speak of beatings and sexual abuse. Some children seem to have disappeared. The paperwork was sparse and properly some of it has disappeared.

It could not have been fun to be there as a child. Where the oversight, the state should have taken care off were, is also uncertain. None seem to have taken care.

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27/02/2019  

751. Glen Mills School

The Glen Mills School has seen a number of students being redrawn by the counties which sent the teenagers to the school originally. The reason seems to be the violence the teenagers were subjected to. Why it did not happen sooner, is an interesting questions. Decades have passed since the first reports of violence. Still many counties continued to use the school. Why did they not intervene sooner? Was the school an ideal solution for teenagers, none cared about until the media took notice of what went on at the school?

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

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26/03/2018  

667. Daruk Boys’ Home

Daruk Boys’ Home also known as Daruk Training School was created hoping the change to lives of young offenders. Instead it became a place where adults could have sex with minors. Basic guidelines to prevent such things from happening were not followed and young boys aged down to 12 ended up with men who had other things in mind than the welfare of the boys. And the sexual abuse was just part of some of the gruesome things which could happen to the boys confined at this facility. The Australian government rewarded the management for their efforts.

It could not have been a fun place to be as a child.

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19/03/2018  

660. Echo Glen Children’s Center

Echo Glen Children’s Center has been around for a long time. There have also been a number of suicide attempts and suicides for a long time.

At least 3 of these deaths are mentioned on the Swedish run memorial board “Today a child died”.

It cannot be fun to be there as a child.

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14/02/2018  

649. Canaan’s Land Boys Ranch

Canaan’s Land Boys Ranch is a small so-called boarding school where they use the ACE curriculum. It operated for some time without proper paperwork, but in Montana there are not a lot of consequences by doing this. The manager – JR Thompson – known from the bizarre events at Blue Creek Academy started the so-called school without proper paperwork.

Given the fact that such schools require almost no oversight and given his past behavior, it is safe to state that it cannot be fun to be there as a teenager, not to mention that the curriculum does not count at most universities and colleges, meaning that it is waste of time academically to attend school there.

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21/01/2018  

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

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31/12/2017  

638. Pine Ridge Training School

Located on an area where they used to house prisoners of war during the second world war, a training school housed teenagers until some time in 1980’s.

Many years after the closure it seems that the training schools housed adults who molested and abused the teenagers. Various forms of sexual exploitation took place against the teenagers. It marked them for decades afterward.

The worst part is that Pine Ridge Training School was only one of these schools. More horror testimonies are expected in the future.

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

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