The UN's special rapporteur on torture has made a formal approach to the US government over a special-needs school near Boston that inflicts electric shocks on autistic children as a form of behavioural control.

SURVIVING STRAIGHT INC.

Straight Incorporated was a “family treatment center” that was dedicated to preventing teenagers from using drugs and alcohol. The “treatment” modality used at Straight was an American version of the infamous re-education centers of the USSR and China. Instead of political dissidents being reformed in the communist mold, Straight took troubled teens and re-programmed them as “Straightlings.” New clients were forcibly indoctrinated with the “Tools of Personal Change” while simultaneously deprived of the most basic human rights.

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CAFETY has long been alarmed by multiple programs operated by Aspen Education Group (AEG), particularly  those west of the Mississippi who that were either CEDU* derivatives (ie. Mt Bachelor Academy) or simply CEDU-like, utilizing the same psuedo-psychological brand of break down "therapy".  Of general concern has also been Aspen's chosen niche, finding any and all reasons to justify the institutionalization and segregation of youth from their families and community.

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