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1983 – A juvenile boot camp program was designed to introduce delinquent youth to a lifestyle of structure and discipline. 1992 – A community prevention grants program gave start-up money to communities for local juvenile crime prevention plans.
W.J. Maxey Boys Training School was a juvenile corrections facility that served delinquent male youths ages 12–21 years old. The facility has sixty beds and provided services to Michigan youth who require intensive or specialized rehabilitation treatment and a high level of security and structure. [1]
The troubled teen industry has a precursor in the drug rehabilitation program called Synanon, founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich. [11] By the late 1970s, Synanon had developed into a cult and adopted a resolution proclaiming the Synanon Religion, with Dederich as the highest spiritual authority, allowing the organization to qualify as tax-exempt under US law.
A Bay Area business owner who was convicted of armed robbery in his younger days has turned his life around after attending a boot camp more than 20 years ago.
Studies of successful graduates have shown that boot camp programs as an alternative to prison time are particularly successful in reducing criminality, but these studies are limited to successful graduates of state correctional and prison-alternative programs managed by current and former military service members. [29]
Kairos Torch, for juvenile detainees. Kairos Outside, for those affected by an incarceration. Awakening; Keryx Prison Ministry, for Michigan penal system Keryx In Community, a non-denominational ministry held in local churches in Michigan; Michigan Youth Challenge Academy (MYCA) a "boot camp" program for at-risk teens
The Government also launched a nine-week camp for the most serious, recidivist offenders in Christchurch in 2010 and a court-supervised programme providing up to ten days of adventure camp activities. 35 of the 42 participants in the first boot camp intake reoffended while 15 of the 17 participants in the second intake reoffended.
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