The video quality is too low and blocky looking to follow what's happening. Maybe get a better quality one posted?

Every damn one of those fuckers should be facing prison time! Did you see what they were forcing the boys in the foreground to do?? Stand at attention in direct sunlight! Japanese officers were executed after WWII for that practice, because it's a form of FUCKING TORTURE!!

GRRRRRRrrrrrrr....

...at boot camps around America.

Outsourced adult torture--at secret US facilities around th world.

What has happened to this country in the past ten years, where torture has become the preferred method of behavior modification? Although the video quality is poor at best, what is clear is that what was taking place here is murder via torture, and all individuals who participated in this junior SS officer training excercise should be brought to justice, including those who sanctioned this disgusting "training" regimen.

I recently looked into working at one of these camps for juvenile male offenders in Tennessee that billed itself as an outdoor rehabilitation facility that used a natural setting as part of the "rehabilitation." It was bull hockey. I spent two weekends, overnight stays, working directly with the the boys and the staff. (There was one campsite of females, very segregated from the boys. The boys were not allowed to even look in their direction and were punished if they were caught doing so.) While there were a few good and wise counselors there, the tactics and strategy had nothing to do with "rehabilitation" and everything to do with punishment and mere physical control. The point seemed to be to bend the boys' will to that of the counselors, most of whom were poorly trained and some of which had no natural empathy for the predicament the youth were in. None of these boys had committed felonies. They were sent to the camp by the court as "juvenile delinquents" because they'd broken the windows out of the neighbors car or had gone on joy rides or were caught smoking pot. Yes, they were impulsive, angry, and manipulative with little social control, but so were the adults. The first day I watched as one of the counselors spent the entire day screaming at the top of his lungs at one of the 18 year old boys, eventually screaming at him, "You don't listen, which is why you're in here. You're never going to make anything out of yourself if you don't start to listen." The boy had repeatedly asked the counselor to stop screaming at him. At no point had the adult made any attempt to try to persuade or engage the youth in what it was he wanted him to do, nor did he just simply met out discipline in any kind of matter of fact, non-emotional way. No, he spent the day literally screaming at him, a situation that I could not help imagine the youth had spent most of his childhood hearing from the other adults in his life; one of the reasons he was in the joint in the first place. I saw and heard counselors repeatedly use brute force and physical threats to keep the boys in line. There seemed little if any strategies engaging intelligent resources of the adults above screaming, arm twisting and punching. One night, one of the boys didn't show up for roll call at his campsite. He was found wandering through the woods in the dark. He was wrestled to the ground, punched in the back and the stomach, head put in a full nelson, arms pushed up to his shoulder blades behind his back and marched by four guards the mile and half back to the main camp, stumbling every few feet over the rocks and boulder in the path. He was thrown on the ground, sat on for about 30 minutes until the camp warden had had his say and then he was finally let up.

The camp never took the boys hiking, fishing, rock climbing, canoeing (although they had several canoes they hadn't been used in years) or anything at all having to do with nature. They spent most of their day just sitting around the campfires, bored out of their minds. The point of the whole operation seemed to be to punish them by getting them away from the television, their CDs, video games, etc.

I decided not to take a job there, not because I was afraid of the boys, as unstable, manipulative and potentially dangerous as they were. I didn't take the job because I thought the adults were even more unstable and dangerous. The camp was closed recently when it was discovered that one of the camp counselors had been taking photographs of the females while they were showering. He had allowed some of the boys to participate. The camp was a privately owned and managed, for profit camp. These places are breeding grounds and training camps for eventually more serious offenders.