It's like another planet at these places. They'll say they're "therapeutic boarding schools" but not actually employ therapists. They also say they're "college preparatory" but where I went most of the teachers are just random people from AA or NA with no actual teaching qualifications. This place had nurses, but they were LPNs and the RN who was supposed to be supervising them didn't actually work there. They didn't do any meaningful physical check-ups (at least where I was all they did was weigh every student monthly), so if where this person went was anything like where I was nobody would have noticed she was sick or done anything about it. Totally crazy, I really wonder what it will take to shut them all down.

I spent 2 years in a TTI residential school, they did prone physical restraints all the time, I got restrained a few times for trying to leave and one time a very heavy person sat on my wrist by accident. Obviously they weren't going to bring me to a doctor for getting injured during a restraint, so I never got an x-ray or anything. It didn't heal right and it's still messed up 15 years later. This is not even the worst instance of this happening where I was, other people had even more ridiculous situations of this specific thing happening. Nobody wants to believe this kind of stuff is going on, and until Paris Hilton came forward most people (AFAIK) hadn't even heard of the troubled teen industry. I'm glad it's getting more attention now but it's so overdue and too late for many people who were so traumatized by TTI facilities they're no longer with us. People who work at these places will almost never admit they're wrong, and if they do it'll be 10 years later after something tragic happens with a statement of "I thought it was right at the time but now looking back I'm not sure if we did as much good as we thought".