Abuse Runs Rampant At Utah 'Troubled Teen' Facility: Report
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Elevations, a facility meant to treat teens with behavioral issues, has been accused of isolating and injuring them instead.
A Utah facility meant to treat teenagers with behavioral issues instead often left them abused and alone, according to a new report.
Former students who attended Elevations Residential Treatment Center in Syracuse said they were restrained by staff, strip searched and even isolated for days on end, NBC News reported.
“I genuinely left worse than when I came in,” Stella Downey, 20, told NBC News. She added she often saw other students ― including her roommate ― engaging in self-harm.
“I would see her covered in blood,” Downey said. “It definitely has scarred me.”
Elevations is just one for-profit center that makes up a larger network of facilities in the “troubled teen industry,” a billion-dollar business that operates with little oversight and has been rife with allegations of abuse, including some reported fatalities.
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