, which provided"misleading marketing" about their programs. But instead of helping the youth entrusted to their care, Hilton recounted alleged instances of"physical and psychological abuse" at the hands of staff, including being"choked, slapped across the face, spied on while showering and deprived of sleep."
"I was called vulgar names and forced to take medication without a diagnosis," she continued."At one Utah facility, I was locked in solitary confinement in a room where the walls were covered in scratch marks and blood stains.", who was fatally restrained by three staff members at Michigan's Lakeside Academy.
"Every child placed in these facilities should have a right to a safe, humane environment, free from threats and practices of solitary confinement, and physical or chemical restraint at the whim of staff," she went on to add."Had such rights existed and been enforced, I and countless other survivors could have been spared the abuse and trauma that have haunted us into adulthood.
The Kim effect