No joke - OP crossed state lines to kidnap 15 year old girl from camp for troubled teens, comes to legaladvice for some reason, the lawnerds there are kinda freaking out about the whole KIDNAPPING A MINOR thing

Rich or upper-middle class parents with difficult children can sign up for their brat to be kidnapped and fixed. Bunch of men barge into the teen's bedroom in the middle of the night. Handcuff them, carry them to their van and drive them to what's probably a wilderness camp. (A practice literally called 'gooning' ) These services are offered by a "Teen escort company".

In a fantastic world maybe you can imagine enough supplies, decent instructors, and peer bonding even if they struggle while learning survival skills or whatever useless nonsense the camp offers. In reality, people are sent to these camps as a punishment, not therapy. The hope is 8+ weeks of tough love and struggle will turn out a fixed obedient teenager. And this is a competitive industry in america so of course we're cutting corners to save on costs. And who needs tough love when you have abuse? Teens have literally unironically died at some camps from heat stroke, hypothermia, injury, or untreated illness.

The relationship between adults and teens is confrontational. Punishments for disobedience and misbehavior might involve being forcefed sedatives. Denied food, water, or sleep. Refused communication with family. Losing clothes, or being molested as part of a cavity search.

You aren't going to be calling home, and if you are allowed it will be monitored. Letters home will be redacted of any bad news. Some state laws have tried to fix this but who knows if they're enforced.

Anyway after a few mental breakdowns even the straightest people start to become a little gay so I approve of these camps 100% as gay recruitment facilities. (Even if gayness is one of the things they're supposed to fix. Oops.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon

>Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr.

>Described as one of the "most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen," Synanon disbanded in 1991 after several members were convicted of offenses including financial misdeeds, evidence tampering, terrorism, and attempted murder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEDU

>Mel Wasserman, influenced by his Synanon experience, founded CEDU Educational Services, a company in the troubled teen industry that owned and operated several schools. CEDU's schools used the confrontational model of Synanon. The CEDU model was widely influential on the development of parent-choice, private-pay residential programs. People originally inspired by their CEDU experience developed or strongly influenced a significant number of the schools in the therapeutic boarding school industry. The company's schools have faced numerous allegations of abuse. CEDU went out of business in 2005, amid lawsuits and state regulatory crackdowns

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_teen_industry

>Synanon's techniques also inspired the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs (WWASP), an umbrella organization of facilities meant for rehabilitating troubled teenagers.[15]: 132–133  WWASP is no longer in business, due to widespread allegations of physical and psychological abuse

>The troubled teen industry has encountered many scandals due to child abuse, institutional corruption, and deaths, and is highly controversial.[6][7] Many critics of these facilities point to a lack of local, state, and federal laws in the United States and elsewhere governing them.[8] Some countries, such as Bermuda, have been known to send teenagers to programs located in the United States.[9] In addition to their controversial therapeutic practices, many former residents report being forcibly transported to troubled teen facilities by teen escort companies, a practice dubbed "gooning".[10]

The Elan School is one of the most famous of them. The adult consolers were all either incompetent or high on heroin, so they let other teenagers distribute punishments, which generally was them beating the shit out of people or molesting them because… well you're letting troubled teens run the show.

There's a web comic of a dude talking about his experience called Joe vs Elan School. Long read but really good story of a guy who lost his teenage years to that heck hole.

got link?