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The Lost Kids

5: Lots of Tough and Almost No Love

The Lost Kids

USG Audio

True Crime, Unsolvedcrime, Investigative Journalism, Therapeutic School, Society & Culture, History, Investigative Reporting, Troubled Teen, Missing Person

4.8702 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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