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August 20, 2007

Rotenberg Center staff member monitors a student, under the surveillance of a security camera.

At the Rotenberg Center, the staff, too, are constantly under surveillance. They can't have casual conversations with each other and if they are caught failing to shock kids when the rules say they should, they can be fired.

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Food deprivation. Isolation. Electric shocks. Inside the taxpayer-funded program that treats American kids like enemy combatants.

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These kids must be released to their parents/families. Locking them up like that with such discipline will not help the situation, equals more REBELLIONS. Former Social/Legal Worker

Posted by:PeggySeptember 28, 2007 8:21:59 PMRespond ^


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