Alien54's Journal: Congressional Hearing on Troubled 'Troubled Teen' Camps

First, we have this press release from a Statistics Watchdog Group in advance of a hearing held on Capitol Hill. You have to know that when the statisticians are after you, you have really screwed up. Then we have the congressional press release from the House Education and Labor Committee, complete with direct links (PDF warning) to the report and to transcripts of the testimony of several witnesses (1, 2, 3), from the hearing held this week. This is all about a new government report just released that found thousands of allegations of child abuse at private residential treatment programs between 1990 and 2007. Many were horrific. The report also examined in detail ten cases (from many more) of child abuse and neglect that resulted in death between 1990 and 2004. Of course, for those of us who remember (start from the beginning) the Slashdot series Voices from the HellMouth, we have to ask "who are the kids in these camps?"(via)