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Diamond Ranch Academy, a facility for troubled teens in Hurricane, Utah, was ordered to close after 17-year-old Taylor Goodridge's death. Diamond Ranch Academy, a facility for troubled teens in ...
Taylor Goodridge, 17, died at Diamond Ranch Academy, a boarding school for troubled teens in Utah. Former staff said she’d been sick but her complaints were ignored.
When Diamond Ranch Academy first opened in 1999, it was a working ranch in Idaho. Students were expected to take part in a cattle drive. [11] During the first 2–6 weeks at Diamond Ranch Academy there was no educational component. Students would take part in a wilderness component to the program.
Several former students have returned to the campus and found student records, rulebooks and videotapes from the facility's CCTV system. Some of these videos were later uploaded to YouTube. [11] Bell Academy Terra Bella, California, United States: Shut down in 2003 after issues with state Social Services [12] Bethel Academy Mississippi, United ...
Seven school districts said they do not plan to send more students to Diamond Ranch Academy in Hurricane, Utah, after Taylor Goodridge, 17, died there.
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.
An autopsy shows that a teen's death after collapsing at a Utah boarding school, was the result of a serious infection.
Kidnapped for Christ is a documentary film that details the experiences of several teenagers who were removed from their homes and sent to a behavior modification and ex-gay school in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic.