5: Lots of Tough and Almost No Love
The Lost Kids
USG Audio
4.8 • 702 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Investigative journalist Maia Szalavitz explains how tough love programs for teens grew into a billion dollar industry despite thousands of allegations of abuse and neglect.
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| 0:54.4 | Previously on the Lost Kids. |
| 0:57.2 | Sinanon began here on the beachfront in Santa Monica in 1958 as a bold and controversial |
| 1:02.5 | new program for rehabilitating drug addicts and alcoholics. |
| 1:06.0 | But as time went on, the controversy grew stronger and the praise grew fainter because |
| 1:10.2 | Sinanon changed. |
| 1:11.6 | Nothing was going to stop me until they were exposed. |
| 1:16.6 | At what point did you start to feel like that your life was a danger? |
| 1:20.6 | I was getting threatening phone calls. |
| 1:23.6 | What did these phone calls say? |
| 1:25.6 | We're going to kill you. There's 65 youngsters in |
| 1:29.9 | C-Doo, all of them hardcore drug users for whom this program was a last chance. The founder is |
| 1:35.8 | Mel Wasserman, a former Palm Springs furniture dealer who started the program in 1967. |
| 1:41.8 | What the fuck was Cedar? |
| 1:49.7 | Good morning. My name is Cynthia Clark Harvey. Thank you, Chairman Miller and those committee members present today. In 2007, Cynthia Clark Harvey addressed a packed congressional hearing in Washington, D.C. |
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