An American Gulag: Secret P.O.W. Camps for Teens – Desperate Parents, Troubled Teens. Tragic stories of desperate parents, the choices they made, and how you can avoid making their same mistakes. In America, it’s open season on children. Children have become the cash crop for a rising industry of child abuse, that targets anxious or worried parents of “defiant,” “angry,” “depressed,” or “troubled” youth.