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Misc. WWASP facilities
Disclaimer: The text below can be considered biased by some because the author lives in a country, which have ratified the UN Conventions on the Rights of a child.

Sky view Academy

Opened year2005 closed / suspended year2007 Number of detainees57 Satellite photo

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

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program homepage
Forum Anti-WWASP Sky View Forum (Registration required)
WWASP - forum on Fornits

 

Nevada Horizon Academy

Opened year2005   Number of detainees170

Satellite photo

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.

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program homepage
WWASPinfo.net on Horizon Academy
Survivor Group Horizon Academy (Myspace)
Forum Anti-WWASP Horizon Academy Forum (Registration required)
WWASP - forum on Fornits

Midwest Academy

Opened year2003   Number of detainees239

Satellite photo

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.

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program homepage
WWASPinfo.net on Midwest Academy
Survivor Group I was in Midwest Academy and it sucked! (Myspace)
Midwest Academy (Myspace)
Midwest Academy (Myspace)
Forum WWASP - forum on Fornits
Anti-WWASP Midwest Academy Forum (Registration required)

Darrington academy

Opened year2004   Number of detainees?

Satellite photo

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.

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program homepage
WWASPinfo.net on Darrington Academy
International Survivor Action Committee on Darrington Academy
Survivor Group Darrington Academy (Myspace)
Darrington Academy (Myspace)
Forum WWASP - forum on Fornits
Anti-WWASP Darrington Academy Forum (Registration required)

 

Morava Academy

Opened year1998 Closed year1998 Number of detainees?  

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

External Links:

Type Description
Info WWASPinfo.net on Morava Academy
Forum Anti-WWASP Morava Academy Forum (Registration required)
WWASP - forum on Fornits

 

Sunrise Beach

Opened year? Closed year1996 Number of detainees?  

Notice that the directors - Glenda and Steven Roach founded Morava Academy some years later.

External Links:

Type Description
Info WWASPinfo.net on Sunrise Beach
Forum WWASP - forum on Fornits

 

Red River Academy

Opened year2005   Number of detainees? Satellite photo

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]:

bulletTestimony #1
bulletBeing woken up at 7:00 am by a bunch of screaming staff members.
bullet30 minutes are given to get dressed, make our beds, brush teeth, and line up to go do push-ups.
bulletNext follows breakfast and then back to the rooms to get dressed for class.
bulletClasses
bulletAfter 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.
bulletLunch
bulletClasses 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.
bulletAfter lunch we go to watch an educational video..some bullshit..usually national geographic. Then back to class for an hour.
bulletAfter that we go to emotional video which is usually about drugs or violence or something like that.
bulletThen we get one hour outside everyday. We go out and play basketball everyday.
bulletAfter 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)
bulletAfter we get dressed again we go play either dominoes or spades or rummy or something like that.
bulletClass for an hour.
bulletAn hour of personal time
bullet30 minutes to get ready for shutdown at 9:30 pm.
bulletTestimony #2
bulletStudents were to get up promptly at 7:00 and ready themselves for exercises. 
bulletAt 7:05 we went to the "Activity Room" and exercised for 30 minutes.
bullet7:35 - 8:00 was breakfast.
bullet8:00 - 9:00 was school.
bullet9:00 - 11:30 was "educational video & emotional growth video". 
bullet11:30 to 12:30 was PE.
bullet12:30 to 1:00 was Lunch.
bullet1:00 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:

bulletThe bathroom door had to be cracked at least 3 inches at all times, even while the detainees are using the bathroom.
bulletThey also wait at least 30 minutes after eating (in case of eating disorders)
bulletBetween 30min and 1hour after eating, the detainees had to count out loud while using the bathroom.
bulletUse the restrooms are not allowed to take longer than 3 minutes.

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
bulletBeing placeed in "Intervention" (a white room with a chair in the center).
bulletBeing 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.

They also use the normal category-scale for offences from the level program. Example:

bulletA 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).
bulletCategory 5 should be around 1,500 words.
bulletA 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.
Misc.
bulletThere are cameras everywhere on the facility - except dorm rooms.
bulletIt is a lock-down facility with magnetic key-cards, and a 10-foot white fence surrounded the outside.
bulletThe detained teenagers are to march in line structure from room to room.
bulletMales 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.
bulletThere are visit for to the "library" once a week (a small room with bookshelves and approved reading material).
bulletThere 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)
bulletUpper-levels (4+) could talk to any level at anytime.
bulletIf the detainees can stay out of Intervention for an entire week, they are allowed to watch movies on Sunday for a few hours...

References:

1) The facility on Google Maps
2) Red River Academy, by Blair on Myspace
3) Christopher M. Boothe - Red River Academy, Youthrights

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program Homepage
Survivor groups FREE FROM RED RIVER ACADEMY, Myspace
Forum WWASP - forum on Fornits
Anti-WWASP Red River Academy Forum (Registration required)
Red River Academy, a thread on Fornits Webforum
red river academy---- need info, a thread on Fornits webforum
Fighting Institutional Child Abuse Network - WWASP forum

 

Woodland Hills Maternity Home

Opened year?   Number of detainees12 Satellite photo

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.

External Links:

Type Description
Info Program Homepage
  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.
 

Brightway Adolescent Hospital

Opened year? 1998 Number of detainees?  

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)

Type Description
Info International Survivors Action Committee on Brightway Adolescent Hospital
  WWASP info on Brightway Adolescent Hospital