chippermonk
Bluelighter
You have my sympathy! Those programs were notorious.They were the infamous "troubled teen" programs in Utah. I spent 4 months in their insane wilderness isolation program, then 8 months in their "therapeutic boarding school", which was essentially just juvenile jail. I only got one 10 minute phone call per week, and some asshole was sitting right next to me the whole call. That program was shut down about 10 years ago for child abuse.
I lived in a household that sheltered a kid in one of those programs who escaped. My housemates became her legal guardians and some friend of hers who also got out once came to visit. It was pretty messed up and she was able to prove it to the satisfaction of the courts. Dunno if it was the same program, seems like Utah had a lot of them.
We're your parents Mormon? Or some other fundamentalist types?