Human folly for 02016-06-07

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• Troubledteens (reddit.com):

  A center for news, activism, and support for the opponents of the #child-torture-industry

• Thousands of American teens are trapped in abusive cult like treatment centres (vice.com):

  Vice reports in 2013 on the #child-torture-industry, the “drug treatment” part of it; Maia Szalavitz says: “The classic list is food deprivation, sleep deprivation, public humiliation, beatings, and denial of access to the bathroom to the point where you wet or soil yourself. But I’m also constantly hearing stories of people being forced to re-enact various traumas, like being raped.”

• American companies torturing teens for profit you (reddit.com):

  Cyndy Etler’s primer on the #child-torture-industry

• Ex students say boarding school kept them isolation boxes (bigstory.ap.org):

  The #child-torture-industry Midwest Academy kept children in solitary confinement to break them. Emily Beaman escaped by cutting herself with a bottlecap and getting help from emergency responders.

• Personal experiences 1680 5 things I learned escaping troubled teens facility (cracked.com):

  Dylon Peven escaped from a #child-torture-industry “rehab camp” by walking across the desert; this Cracked listicle gives details.

• Personal experiences 1576 printing arms 5 ways 3D printing helping third world (cracked.com):

  humanitarian prosthetics via #3D printer in Sudan

• (theatlantic.com):

  An article about #child-torture-industry camps and similar programs, including the death of Bruce Staeger at Tierra Blanca, who was beaten by the other boys five or six times a day until he died, at the instigation of the organizers

• 20160607 dueprocess (blog.cr.yp.to):

  Dan Bernstein argues in favor of due process and against lynch mobs.