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  2. Behavior modification facility - Wikipedia

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    Gradually, behavior modification /applied behavior analysis within the penal system including residential facilities for delinquent youth lost popularity in the 1970s-1980s due to a large number of abuses (see Cautilli & Weinberg (2007) [24]), but recent trends in the increase in U.S. crime and recent focus on reduction of recidivism have given ...

  3. Boot camp (correctional) - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, participation in boot camp programs is voluntary, so as to avoid any challenges under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms under which treatment at boot camps could be seen as an infringement on a youth's right to not be subject to cruel and unusual punishment and to ensure security of person.

  4. Troubled teen industry - Wikipedia

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    The troubled teen industry (also known as TTI) is a broad range of youth residential programs aimed at struggling teenagers.The term encompasses various facilities and programs, including youth residential treatment centers, wilderness programs, boot camps, and therapeutic boarding schools.

  5. Youth incarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Youth detention center - Wikipedia

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    Harris County Juvenile Detention Center, Houston, Texas In criminal justice systems, a youth detention center, known as a juvenile detention center (JDC), [1] juvenile detention, juvenile jail, juvenile hall, observation home or remand home [2] is a prison for people under the age of majority, to which they have been sentenced and committed for a period of time, or detained on a short-term ...

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    By the mid-1990s, Esmor had expanded far beyond its New York City origins, winning contracts to manage a boot camp for young boys and adults outside of Forth Worth, Texas, and immigration detention centers in New Jersey and Washington state. As the company grew and sought more contracts, executives hired knowledgeable government insiders.

  8. Managers fired at Eldora school for delinquent boys after ...

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    The Jan. 31 housecleaning of top administrators at the state-run home for delinquent boys ages 12 to 18 comes as it has been under federal court monitoring for years to improve treatment of youth ...

  9. Lowell Correctional Institution - Wikipedia

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    The Lowell Correctional Institution Work Camp houses inmates whose custody level allows them to work outside the gates and with the public. The Lowell Correctional Institution Boot "C.A.M.P." Jones (Correctional Alternative Military Program), is a boot camp for young offenders. The C.A.M.P. Jones facility was defunded in 2011 along with several ...