By Anonymous: 1986 I was sent to a week-long internment when I was 14 years old. We were told we could only bring what would fit in a 40lb backpack and a sleeping bag. We were not told the nights would be freezing and to bring appropriate coats, boots, and clothes for those temperatures. We [...]

By Luke: 2020-2021 I’m giving my testimony to this, because I feel like I was mistreated in many different ways at Newport Academy. My time there was tumultuous because I experienced abuse by other clients of the facility and emotional abuse by the counselor and staff. I was repeatedly physically assaulted by other clients, and [...]

By Harley: 2011 – 2012 I was taken to Diamond Ranch Academy on August 6, 2011 when I was sixteen years old. I had just gotten out of another program, Ridge Creek School, which was shut down after a riot. I was gooned when I was taken to Ridge Creek, but not Diamond Ranch. I [...]

By Anonymous: 2022 I stayed in Prairie Care Residential for a little over 3 months before getting kicked out because I couldn’t pay my first month there I had no therapist. While I was there I watched numerous assaults one in which a teenage boy hit a staff member and then was wrestled by two [...]

By Ashley: 2010-2011 I was sixteen years old when I woke up to two people in my room, a retired police officer and beefy woman. I was very confused, I did not have a top on and was only wearing bottoms. The man threw a shirt at me and told me to put it on [...]

By Anonymous: 2017-2018 I experienced extreme conversion therapy for being “sick with homosexuality.” My parents took me there after i had a suicide attempt due to undiagnosed bipolar. They told me god was punishing me and making me depressed cause I was living in sun. almost all of my PSNCs were related to homosexuality and [...]

By Anonymous: (2012-2013) At the High Frontier, I experienced physical and emotional abuse. When I turned 18 and tried to leave the facility, staff tackled me and I broke my ankle. They then restrained me in a van and placed me into an isolation room with no bed, pillows, or any basic necessities for five [...]