Great, a concentration camp for teenagers...

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OK, I saw this on another forum, and I just want to spread the word:

Did you know that in the United States, it is perfectly legal for a child's parents to arrange to have their son/daughter kidnapped, forced into isolation, and tortured? It is. When you hear people talking about "boot camps" or "corrective facilities", this is what it can be like.
Teens have been hogtied, forced to eat their own vomit, made to sit in isolation in their own urine and feces, starved, shoved into fire ant nests, and dragged from behind vans. Now, I know people always blame the parents for sending their kids off to these places in the first place, but oftentimes, the parents are just misinformed and desperate. Brochures for these facilities show swimming pools and smiling counselors, not restraints and isolation chambers. Parents can also choose to have their progeny sent off to a "camp" in Jamaica, where
The only moment a student is alone is in a toilet cubicle; but a chaperone is standing right outside the door, and knows what he or she went in to do, because when students raise their hand for permission to go, they must hold up one finger for 'a number one', and two for 'a number two'.

Corporal punishment is not practised, but staff administer 'restraint'. One student explains: 'It's a completely degrading, painful experience. You could get it for raising your voice or pointing your finger. You know you're going to get it when three Jamaicans walk in and say, "Take off your watch." They pin you down in a five-point formation and that's when they start twisting and pulling your limbs, grinding your ankles.'

Before sending their teen to Tranquility, parents are advised that it might be prudent to keep their plan a secret, and employ an approved escort service to break the news. The first most teenagers hear of Tranquility is therefore when they are woken from their beds at home at 4am by guards, who place them in a van, handcuffed if necessary, drive them to an airport and fly them to Jamaica. The child will not be allowed to speak to his or her parents for up to six months, or see them for up to a year.

... no child arrives at Tranquility with a release date. Students are judged ready to leave only when they have demonstrated a sincere belief that they deserved to be sent here, and that the programme has, in fact, saved their life. They must renounce their old self, espouse the programme's belief system, display gratitude for their salvation, and police fellow students who resist.

...Students who fail to grasp the formula are forcefully encouraged to get the message. One girl currently has to wear a sign around her neck at all times, which reads: 'I've been in this programme for three years, and I am still pulling crap.'

When most children first arrive they find it difficult to believe that they have no alternative but to submit. In shock, frightened and angry, many simply refuse to obey. This is when they discover the alternative. Guards take them (if necessary by force) to a small bare room and make them (again by force if necessary) lie flat on their face, arms by their sides, on the tiled floor. Watched by a guard, they must remain lying face down, forbidden to speak or move a muscle except for 10 minutes every hour, when they may sit up and stretch before resuming the position. Modest meals are brought to them, and at night they sleep on the floor of the corridor outside under electric light and the gaze of a guard. At dawn they resume the position.

This is known officially as being 'in OP' - Observation Placement - and more casually as 'lying on your face'. Any level student can be sent to OP, and it automatically demotes them to level 1 and zero points. Every 24 hours, students in OP are reviewed by staff, and only sincere and unconditional contrition will earn their release. If they are unrepentant? 'Well, they get another 24 hours.'

One boy told me he'd spent six months in OP.

I didn't think this could be true, but it transpired this was not even exceptional. 'Oh no,' says Kay. 'The record is actually held by a female.' On and off, she spent 18 months lying on her face.

This all sounds like a major abuse of human rights yet the Jamaican govt seems not bothered about the place so long as it obeys local sanitary regulations. The institution has 49% guardianship rights over the kids and the parents approve so the US authorities won't intervene either.

And why would any parent, no matter how desperate, do this to their children? Here's the kicker: the parents are brainwashed too.
Parents cannot visit their child at Tranquility until they, too, have attended a seminar in the States. They attend further seminars together with their child and many consider this to be the programme's most valuable attribute. 'Awesome,' marvels Jim Mozingo, 'mind-blowing.' But this dual approach ensures that the only people outside Tranquility with whom students are allowed contact become insiders, too, co-opted into Tranquility's special language and belief system. And parents have a financial incentive to believe and proselytise. For every new customer they can recruit, a month's fees for their own child are waived.

Here's a chilling video made by a teen who survived the Jamaican camp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwUmc_Aoykc&

And as if abuse wasn't bad enough, hundreds, if not thousands, of children have been killed in these camps. In most cases, no charges were filed because "it was the kid's fault". They include:

Alex Harris, age 13, who died of thirst after being forced to run for miles. Numerous times that day, the boy begged for water, complained of pain, and even tried to drink from water fountain before allegedly being dragged away from it.

An anonymous Wisconsin girl who died after after being restrained at a mental health facility. Her crime: blowing bubbles in her milk and moving during a time-out.

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Martin Lee Anderson, 14, was beaten to death. Charges were filed, but the jury acquitted everyone involved.

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Omega Leach, 17, strangled to death. After refusing to leave his room, Omega was pushed into the hallway, thrown to the ground, and choked. The staffer then forced him back into his room, where eyewitnesses reported that he slammed Omega's head into a wall and pinned him facedown on the floor for seven minutes.

Nicholaus Contreraz, 16. The teenager spent the last week of his life complaining of chest pain and difficulty breathing, but had been identified by the staff as a malingerer and punished more when he complained. When the boy sought medical attention for his condition, the camp nurse repeatedly sent him back out with approval to engage in the stringent exercise required of troublesome juveniles. His condition worsened and he began to defecate on himself and vomit frequently. Staff belittled the youth, made him sleep in soiled underwear, made him eat dinner while sitting on a toilet and ordered him to carry a trash basket filled with his soiled clothes and his own vomit. He eventually collapsed and died. The medical examiner ruled Contreraz died of empyema, a buildup of fluid in the lining between his lungs and chest cavity. He was also suffering from strep and staph infections, pneumonia and chronic bronchitis. The coroner noted 71 cuts and bruises on the boy's body. All criminal charges against the staff were dropped.

Paul Choy celebrated his 16th birthday brain dead and on life support. Before he died, a nurse observed injuries consistent with anal rape. Choy was at a center called Rite of Passage, being forced to sit on a wooden platform in the cold for five hours as punishment for failing to finish a five-mile run. That's five hours of shivering and without bathroom breaks. Finally, in reckless desperation, he gave his keepers just the signal they were waiting for. Two staff members restrained him in a full Nelson for about ten minutes, after which time they noticed he wasn't breathing. To make matters worse, a staff member had this to say about the incident:
... Well, you can't just let these punk kids ignore the rules, can you? You gotta put 'em in their place, right? If they're out of control, you restrain 'em, right? When they don't cooperate, you gotta make 'em cooperate, right? And when they come lookin' for trouble, you give 'em trouble. They ain't in boot camp to be mollycoddled, you know, but to learn respect for authority. And I'm not their goddam granny who's gonna give 'em hot coco when they need their butts kicked...


In addition, we have:

Aaron Bacon, 16, abused and neglected until he died of acute peritonitis - an ulcerous meltdown that gradually ate holes in his lower intestine. When his mother went to identify his body,
"His face was unrecognizable," the Phoenix woman sobbed at a hearing in Utah last year. "He had these sunken cheeks, and his eyes, he looked like a skeleton, his hands were all bone. He was literally bruised, black and blue, from the tip of his toes to the top of his head. He had sores between his legs, open sores. The bottoms of his feet, I don't know how anyone could have walked or hiked on them. "His legs were like toothpicks, his hipbones stuck way out, his ribs—he looked like a concentration-camp victim. The only way we were even able to recognize him was a childhood scar above his right eye. I began screaming, because something was terribly wrong."

Michelle Sutton, died of dehydration after being denied water.
Gina Score, forced to run to the point of hyperthermia.
Timithy Thomas, age 9, suffocated while being restrained.
Randy Steele, 9, suffocated while being restrained.
Ian Thomas, 14, died of heatstroke.
Anthony Haynes, 14, died after being dehydrated and forced to eat dirt.
Chase Moody, 17, suffocated while being restrained.
Mikie Garcia, 12, suffocated while being restrained.
Faith Finley, 17, choked on her own vomit while being restrained.
Travis Parker, 13, restrained by three men facedown on the ground for an hour and a half before he stopped breathing. He asked for his asthma inhaler after the first 15 minutes, but staff refused to give it to him. They were later fired and arrested for felony murder.
Linda Harris, 14, was found by paramedics unconscious, with scraped elbows, blood in her mouth, and in physical restraints when they arrived at a facility to try to resuscitate her.
Carlton Eugene Thomas, 17, suffered cardiac arrest after a staff member choked him with a restraining hold. His body was battered and bruised.
Dawnne Takeuchi, thrown from a semi-truck. The VisionQuest counselor driving the supply vehicle was convicted of careless driving and was ordered to pay a mere $270 in restitution.
Andrew McClain, 11, died while being restrained in a Portland, Conn., psychiatric hospital.
Mark Soares, 16, died after workers put him in a headlock at a home for troubled youths in Marlboro, where he was placed because of a history of committing verbal and physical assaults.
Casey Collier, 17, died of asphyxiation after six hospital orderlies restrained him by sitting on his back, legs and shoulders.

Rest in peace.

So why did I cross-post this long-winded topic? Because the only way to end such a sickening practice is to spread the word. I suggest that everyone here cross-posts a topic about this on every message board you are subscribed to, and encourage the readers there to do the same. Spread the word, make it viral, Twitter, Facebook, anything. Make it impossible to ignore. Go!

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I don't care how 🤬 desperate you might be as a parent. You NEVER 🤬 TRUST OTHER PEOPLE WITH YOUR KIDS LIKE THAT. Not unless its a good school or a daycare where you're not barred from keeping an eye on your children. If you are, then get the hell away from that. This makes my blood boil.

The most infuriating part was this quote: "... Well, you can't just let these punk kids ignore the rules, can you? You gotta put 'em in their place, right? If they're out of control, you restrain 'em, right? When they don't cooperate, you gotta make 'em cooperate, right? And when they come lookin' for trouble, you give 'em trouble. They ain't in boot camp to be mollycoddled, you know, but to learn respect for authority. And I'm not their goddam granny who's gonna give 'em hot coco when they need their butts kicked..."

There comes a time when I want to beat the living **** out of someone. This is it. Doesn't make me any better than the handlers, sure, except for the fact that I'm not abusing young kids and teenagers because "they're being punks." Inexcusably twisted and pathetic.

Post this everywhere. Copy and paste it or paraphrase it if you want, but make this difficult to ignore. Make viral videos, make whatever you want. Get the attention of Anonymous even. Get the A-Team. Get these bastards shut down and behind bars.
 
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What do you expect from a industrial "country" (officials and politicians) who ask officially that torture is a legitmate instrument??

Read about this nazi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio , and i seriously ask myself if it is really a country of freedom.

(Disclaimer: This is not to criticize America, or Americans as a whole, as this is just a part of a system which backfired, so do not be offended, unless you are Joe Arpaio)

On this subject of bootcamps,i saw some european documentaries on it, and it is more than dispicable. This kids will develop some serious mental issues in their adulthood.
 
Last I checked Jamaica isn't in the U.S. which is what most of that article seems to deal with.
 
^ The parents (some of whom were in the US) arranged for their children to be kidnapped.

This is sick. Whoever even thinks of sending their kids to these concentration camps should be banned from having kids.
 
Yes, but the camp in the article is in Jamaica, not the U.S.

Yes, but the parents were Americans. (Some of them)

*awaits smart answer*

^ The parents (some of whom were in the US) arranged for their children to be kidnapped.

This is sick. Whoever even thinks of sending their kids to these concentration camps should be banned from having kids.

This.

It almost amuses me (when it does not make me cry) that people all over the world STILL believe that "respect for authorities" through hate, violence, fear, torture and so on will do the person, which is under this "authority", any good.

People always take the easy way:turn away from truth-accept lies, hate and fear.

We seriously need to change, or else we're doomed, and I'm dead serious.
 
^^Good reply.

Isn't there also a law in America that an executive autority can take you in custody for 48 hours without a given reason?

In Joe Arpaio prison, people camp outside in tents from Vietnam, their food is already eaten partely by rats or simply rotten. Minors (for minor infractions) are held with serious criminals,....

If people want to do even worse and go abroad US soil for that, it doesn't make it magically right suddendly. Remember only friendship is magic!
 
I've actually never heard of Tranquility Bay, but I don't want this to reflect badly on Jamaica.
 
Can't imagine it's something the Jamaican government are particularly vocal about. Although, as with the Nazi Concentration camps, someone had to find out eventually.
 
Can't imagine it's something the Jamaican government are particularly vocal about. Although, as with the Nazi Concentration camps, someone had to find out eventually.

It doesn't seem like something that they would even have condoned. Well, unlike in the US, hitting your child as an act of discipline is legal, but this is far too extreme. Must certainly have been done under secrecy.
 
That's like saying Guantanamo Bay or the hidden CIA facilities (for torture off the shores of the US) weren't America's problem :dunce:

Both of which would be on US soil, fairly certain there is no U.S. government soil in Jamaica except for the embassy.

Saying the Jamaica facility it the U.S.'s problem is like saying France's prisons
(which have a rather bad rep) are the U.S.'s problems.
 
I maintain that mankind is the owner of these type of problems...

But unfortunately we're so deep in so said "national pride" that we completely forgot about it. Sad. :(
 
It's still ****ed up, even if it was shut down 20 years ago, that doesn't make it not ****ed up.

Again, that's ****ed up.
 
It helps if you make your text extremely large and obnoxious.

Thanks god though.
That's ridiculous.
Well, it is part of a chain of similar camps, several of which have been shut down. Tranquility Bay appears to have been the worst of them, though. The problem was that none of the people running it were actually trained in child development.
 
It bugs me when parents have a bad kid, but it terrifies me when parents are convinced they have a bad kid. A child can be changed with decent parenting but it's near impossible to reason with a stupid adult.
 
I know it's closed now, but how many camps would there still be?
It's just sick to read something like that, how on earth could you do that to a kid, as a parent, or a "campguard".


If they had eaten their veggies, none of this would happen!

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You seem to be a bit lost. :yuck:
 
When I was younger I was sent off to camps where I had very little privacy, was often hit, beaten with sticks, and even had a foot broken. Failure to complete a task would often involve ridicule and/or physical punishment that pushed you so hard you'd nearly puke. Sometimes, they'd play our mistakes over and over to make sure their punishment set in.

Can any of you guess what kind of camp this was?

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hockey camp.
 
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