Utah Has Seen Abuse In 'Troubled Teen' Programs For Decades. Now, Momentum Slowly Builds For Change.
KUER In October, Los Angeles artist Jennifer Korsen returned for the first time to the site of Island View, a residential treatment center she attended as a teenager. In the first weeks of December, a short video — just three minutes and 22 seconds — started zipping around certain circles of the internet. In it, Megan Stokes, the head of the “troubled teen” industry’s largest trade group, can be heard on a conference call advising members on how to spot warning signs that their programs might be the subject of a Disability Law Center investigation and cautioning them to tread light...
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