If the legislation to monitor the troubled teen industry is done wrong, promoters could tell parents that it is regulated, wrongly implying that this will prevent the abusive practices of the past.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics
Congressman George Miller recently introduced strong legislation to fight abuse in teen boot camps and other "tough love" residential facilities.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
How can it be that there are unregulated private jails for teenagers in which they can receive corporal punishment that is prohibited even for convicted murderers in 21st century America?
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 05.05.2008 | Living
Despite thousands of cases of severe abuse, few attorneys have been willing to take on the unregulated "troubled teen" industry, and its practices that the government has labeled "torture."
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
Right now, many states regulate dog kennels more assiduously than they monitor "tough love" rehabilitation programs for teens.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.07.2007 | Living
Oprah got to the heart of the matter: institutions in which children are fearful and silenced are institutions that will sooner or later, inevitably, become abusive.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 10.17.2007 | Living
It was an incredible experience for me last week to sit in Congressional hearings and listen to two parents I'd featured in my book finally get a chance to tell their stories to people who might make a difference.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
When cops, and in effect that's what the guards were, go on trial for overuse of force, their victims are generally poor blacks and Latinos.
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 09.06.2007 | Politics
Romney has kicked troubled-teen titan Robert Lichfield to the curb. Lichfield's organization is being sued in a class action suit by over 100 plaintiffs. But national finance co-chair, Mel Sembler, remains.
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
When Katie Couric told Haaretz that "The glory days of TV news...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
If you're wondering about the recent articles claiming that a study found...
HOUSTON — A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off...
WASHINGTON — Rescue legislation sailed through the House on Wednesday aimed at...
Maia Szalavitz | Posted 06.23.2008 | Living