Meg Applegate News Today

Dozens of camps have sprung up around America in a multi-billion dollar industry where parents are promised a solution for their troubled children, but the reality is a harsh environment that often does more harm than good

At least a dozen children have died since 2000 at the camps which dot the American landscape and are just one feature of the multi-billion dollar troubled teens industry.

The suspicious death of a 12-year-old boy at a North Carolina therapy camp is now shedding new light on the controversial wilderness therapy camps for troubled kids.

A teenager is suing a Syracuse treatment center for alleged kidnapping, neglect and failing to report allegations of sexual abuse.

A Utah treatment center for troubled teens is facing a lawsuit from a former patient alleging neglect and abuse, specifically that the boy’s therapist failed to report allegations of sexual abuse.

Using nature to clear the mind is a tried-and-true technique. But rural-based “wilderness therapy” camps often employ controversial practices to treat troubled teens that may do more harm than good, according to former campers and child welfare advocates.

Wilderness therapy camps often employ controversial practices that do more harm than good say former campers and child welfare advocates.

As a teenager attending Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, a private, alternative therapeutic program in Eureka, Montana, from 2001 to 2004, Meg Applegate was subjected to emotional abuse and

A new law aims to bolster protections for teens in programs that are part of what is commonly referred to as the 'troubled teen industry.'

As a teenager attending Chrysalis Therapeutic Boarding School for Girls, a private, alternative therapeutic program in Eureka, Montana, from 2001 to 2004, Meg Applegate was subjected to emotional abuse and