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| Disclaimer: The text below can be considered biased by
some because the author lives in a country, which have ratified the
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Sky View Academy are one of the smaller WWASP connected facilities. It is placed on 10, 21st Street, Hawthorne, Nevada 89415
It uses WWASP level system. It is placed in a remote area with desert
around it just outside the city of Hawthorne.
News
September 2007 the facility has been suspended by the local state DCFS
after an incident of sexual harassment among the detained teenagers. The
facility has send a list of other prisons to transfer their offsprings to
[1].
References
1)
Letter about the incident and suspension
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It is one of the less known facilities. It is
placed on the corner of West Mecca Road and Highway Route 373 in Amargosa
Valley, Nevada
It uses WWASP level system. It is placed in a remote area with desert
around it. Nearest town is Pahrump.
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The facility is placed on 2416, 340th Street, Keokuk, Iowa 52632. The former director -
Brian Vaifanua - of the now close
Paradise Cove
has been sighted on the facility.
It uses WWASP level system. It is placed in a remote area with desert
around it. Nearest town is Keokuk and it is placed almost at the end of the
runway of Keokuk Municipal Airport.
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The facility is placed on 1580 Appalachian Hwy, Blue Ridge, Georgia
30513. It is the former Fannin Inn Motel.
International Survivor Action Committee has investigated this facility
very meticulous and it seems that the official marketing material has been
through a process of photomontage because the grassy areas does not exist.
Here is a link to a
page with articles and photos. Also the satellite image on the right
does not display these areas. During 2006 there were
rumors about illegal
workers present on the facility. Darrington did open 2004. It was the
same year that Casa by the Sea was closed by the Mexican authorities
due to suspicion of child abuse, so it could have been conceivable that some
of the workers had transferred themselves to Darrington.
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Morava academy was placed in the Czech republic. It was closed by the
authorities in 1998 due to suspicion of child abuse. The book Comeback
- a mother and daughter's journey through hell and back [1]
portraits the facility and the shutdown. The daughter received the final
stages of her character alteration programming at
Spring Creek Lodge. The managers of the
facility had been involved in another facility in Mexico, which were shut
down by the authorities [2].
In 1999 the Czech Radio reported that the manager Steven Roach was
believed to have escaped the country in order to avoid jail, which could
be a sentence for 8 years [3].
Reference:
1) Book:
Comeback - a mother and daughter's journey
through hell and back by Mia and Claire Fontaine (ISBN-10: 0-06-085971-7)
2) Morava
Academy heads arrested before, By Ladka Bauerova, The Prague
Post, December 11, 1998 (Reprint from project Nospank)
3)
CZECH-USA-MORAVIA-CRIME, Transcript Czech radio
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Notice that the directors - Glenda and Steven Roach founded
Morava
Academy some years later.
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Red River Academy is the newest school related to the WWASP
organization. The facility is located on 2810 Highway 71, Lecompte,
Louisiana 71346 [1].
The building used to be an old nursery home.
They use a WWASP
level system
Program structure
A typical day
The daily schedule are destribed below by a survivors [2]
[3]:
 | Testimony #1 |
 | Being woken up at 7:00 am by a bunch of screaming staff members.
 | 30 minutes are given to get dressed, make our beds, brush teeth,
and line up to go do push-ups.
 | Next follows breakfast and then back to the rooms to get dressed
for class.
 | Classes
 | After class it is time for something called progress review...its
involve talking to the family representative about how the detainee
are doing and if there are things (within the strict rules), which
the detainee need. It takes about an hour.
 | Lunch
 | Classes for an hour and a half follows next After an hour of that
we go to lunch and then back to class for an hour and a half.
 | After lunch we go to watch an educational video..some
bullshit..usually national geographic. Then back to class for an
hour.
 | After that we go to emotional video which is usually about drugs
or violence or something like that.
 | Then we get one hour outside everyday. We go out and play
basketball everyday.
 | After that we come inside and get a 7 min shower(7 min. to get
undressed, shower, dry off, put on a shirt and line up)
 | After we get dressed again we go play either dominoes or spades or
rummy or something like that.
 | Class for an hour.
 | An hour of personal time
 | 30 minutes to get ready for shutdown at 9:30 pm. |
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 | Testimony #2 |
 | Students were to get up promptly at 7:00 and ready themselves for
exercises. |
 | At 7:05 we went to the "Activity Room" and exercised for
30 minutes. |
 | 7:35 - 8:00 was breakfast. |
 | 8:00 - 9:00 was school. |
 | 9:00 - 11:30 was "educational video & emotional growth
video". |
 | 11:30 to 12:30 was PE. |
 | 12:30 to 1:00 was Lunch. |
 | 1:00 to 5:00 was school, with a 5 minute restroom break in
between. Then on to Dinner, showers, reading time and then sleep.
This was how things worked 365 days a year. No weekends. No
holidays. Nothing. |
Communication
As it is normal in the level system visitation from the parents are
something to be earned, but they have made it possible for the parents to
come and visit the facility without the detained teenager seeing or
meeting them. They have a window where visiting parents can see their son
or daugther during PE on the outside.
Letter are the only mean of communication while the detainees are
placed on the lower levels and they are required to write parents online
every Sunday (The minimum is a paragraph).
Living Conditions
4 detainees live in a single room - there are 2 bunk beds, and the
bottom bunk was considered the "bunk buddy" to the top rack. The
detainee using the lower bed are usually a higher level and the lower
level on the top bunk would have to tap them at night before going to the
bathroom.
There are rules about using bathrooms:
 | The bathroom door had to be cracked at least 3 inches at all times,
even while the detainees are using the bathroom.
 | They also wait at least 30 minutes after eating (in case of eating
disorders)
 | Between 30min and 1hour after eating, the detainees had to count out
loud while using the bathroom.
 | Use the restrooms are not allowed to take longer than 3 minutes. |
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The detainees are given 3 well-rounded meals a day. Because they
facility is in Louisiana, the meals are often cajun food. A less
distasteful meail is the breakfast because the eggs were made out of
powder. They have a minimum eating rule. The detained teenagers have to
eat at least 70% of the food on their tray, or the staff would make the
detainee stay after everyone else so he or she can finish the meal. If the
detainee refused, he or she will be sent to "Intervention".
Consequences
 | Being placeed in "Intervention" (a white room with a chair
in the center).
 | Being forced to wear an organge shirt. This punishment are given to
those who talk about running away and to those on suicide-watch.
Detainees wearing the orange shirt has to run 40 laps on the concrete
basketball court instead on 5 laps on the mud/grass area. |
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They also use the normal category-scale for offences from the level
program. Example:
 | A person not keeping formations while walking the corridors. The
detainees have to keep their eyes on the head of the person in front
of them - if a detainee "break line structure" by glancing
out at the chaperones or looking around, the detainee are given a
"Cat. 1" (a 50-word essay).
 | Category 5 should be around 1,500 words.
 | A second offence done while the first has not been paid up, means
automaticly category 5 and being sent to "Intervention".
While in "Intervention" the detainee are ordered to copy the
"student" handbook a certain amount of times, and then
complete however many essays or "consequences" they were
given. |
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Misc.
 | There are cameras everywhere on the facility - except dorm rooms.
 | It is a lock-down facility with magnetic key-cards, and a 10-foot
white fence surrounded the outside.
 | The detained teenagers are to march in line structure from room to
room.
 | Males and females detainees aren't allowed any contact whatsoever
(except briefly during seminars). They are ordered to turn our heads
while marching through the hallway to that they couldn't see the
opposite sex on the other end of the hall.
 | There are visit for to the "library" once a week (a small
room with bookshelves and approved reading material).
 | There are restrictions on speaking with other detainees at anytime
(unless the levels added up to 4 <ie. level 1 and level 3 could
talk> (but only during PE and leisure time)
 | Upper-levels (4+) could talk to any level at anytime.
 | If the detainees can stay out of Intervention for an entire week,
they are allowed to watch movies on Sunday for a few hours... |
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The facility is located on 75 West Oak Drive, Woodland Hills, Utah 84653.
It is a facility for pregnant girls, who also offers adoption services.
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Moms love is forever Support group on Yahoo for Stolen Babies,
Exiled Parents, and Siblings missing brothers and sisters to provide
support and healing to those who were affected by forced and coerced
adoption. |
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Brightway Adolescent Hospital is a now-closed hospital in St.
George for adolescents. It was closed in March 1998 [1].
Ken Kay, President of
WWASPS, was the director of Brightway at the time.
His son, Jay Kay - now director at
Tranquility Bay - worked as a security guard at the facility.
Recently it was featured in the movie "Self-medicated"
[2].
1)
Utah Adolescent Hospital Shut, Case of troubled Oakland youth triggered
scrutiny , by Henry K. Lee, Salt Lake Tribune, March 19 - 1998, (re-print
from ISAC)
2)
Self-medicated on Independed Movie DataBase (IMDB)
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