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Thank you to Survivor Brittany for sharing with us today.

Brittany was sent to a Jamaican residential lockdown facility called Tranquility Bay in 2005.

Tranquility Bay, like many of the international WASP programs, were reported by journalists

and former residents to be among the harshest in the network and were sometimes invoked

as a threat by other programs.

Youth were regularly shipped between Tranquility Bay and other international WASP programs

like Casa by the Sea and High Impact in Mexico.

Moving kids internationally often reset legal jurisdiction, making it harder for parents or attorneys to

intervene. Tranquility Bay operated from 1997 until early January 2009 on a two and a half acre

property that had originally functioned as a hotel. Tuition reportedly cost caregivers between $25,000 and $40,000 per year.

The Jamaica Observer recounts a 2001 fatal fall of a teen shortly after arrival and a 2005 incident

in which two teens fled after a hurricane, while other reporting characterizes

Tranquility Bay as among Wasp's most severe programs.

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