The Last Stop (2017)
What do you do when a good kid goes bad?
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 51M
Director : Todd Nilssen
Sinopse
The Élan School was a for-profit, residential behavior modification program and therapeutic boarding school located deep within the woods of Maine. Delinquent teenagers who failed to comply with other treatment programs were referred to the school as a last resort. Treatment entailed harsh discipline, surveillance, degradation, and downright abuse. Years later, the patients who were institutionalized in this facility still carry the trauma they endured, with mixed opinions on the impact of their experience.
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