http://www.caica.org/STARTLING%20FACTS.htm

See recent class action lawsuit against Tranquility Bay
(specifically pages 13 and 14).

http://www.box.net/shared/g6nl77iakf

http://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=22096

What would you do to your neighbor if they sent their "troubled" son to a place where kids are ...

• Forced to eat their own vomit
• Kicked, beaten, thrown, and slammed to the ground
• Bound and tied by their hands/and or feet
• Chained and locked in dog cages
• Forced to stay in isolation for long periods of times
• Locked in small boxes or cages
• Locked in basements
• Forced to lie in or wear urine and feces as a method of punishment
• Forced to clean and scrub toilets and floors with their toothbrush and then use the toothbrush afterwards
• Forced to sleep on cold concrete floors, box springs, or plywood used as beds – some had no bed linens
• Forced to assume distorted and painful physical positions for long periods of time
• Forced to live in unsanitary living conditions
• Denied adequate food
• Denied even a minimally sufficient education
• Denied proper medical and dental treatment and care
• Exposed to extreme hot and cold temperatures for long periods of time
• Forced to exercise beyond their physical capacity
• Forced to carry heavy bags of sand or logs around their neck throughout the day over many days
• Sexually abused, including sexual relations and acts of fondling and masturbation performed on them
• Emotional abuse by subjecting children to near total parental and societal isolation; personal visits, correspondence, and telephone calls were either forbidden or discouraged
• Because of near-total isolation, these children were totally unequipped to enter outside society
• Forced to work many hours a day violating child labor laws
• Confiscated and/or kept students’ US mail
• Deprived from using the toilet, and as a result, urinated or defecated on themselves
• Verbally abused by lying that their parents knew what was happening to them and were supportive of it all
• Subjected to buddy system where older students were allowed to physically, mentally, and sexually abuse younger students and manage them as part of “cleansing” process
• Deprived of sleep
• Forced to wear the same, unwashed clothes for weeks at a time
• In most cases. denied religious affiliation
• Forced to eat raw or rotten food
• Poked and prodded with various objects while being strip-searched
• Forced to write false confession letters to parents to justify being sent to the WWASPS schools
• Threatened severe punishment, including death, if they told anyone about the abuse or poor living conditions --

http://members.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0322/6306112a_print.html

Source: Forbes

The project manager and co-founder of the Royal Gorge Academy boarding school - a sister organization of Tranquility Bay — was found guilty of one count each of third-degree assault and false imprisonment.

http://randallhinton-testifies.blogspot.com/

http://www.helpyourteens.com/news/extra_january_2003_newsletter.html

http://bayes.joshpurinton.com/~joshp/tranquility-bay-testimony.html

* There are no laws to protect the children
* The facility is not licensed and there is no oversight
* Children lose their basic human rights
* Many have no privacy to use the restroom or shower
* Children lose contact with the outside world
* Once phone calls with parents are finally allowed, usually 3-6 months after the child enters the program, they are censored; children lose all other verbal contact with the outside world
* Children’s letters to extended family and friends are usually not delivered, and mail is censored
* Many have spent months on their faces in isolation

Over the years, thousands of children have ended up at WWASP’s Tranquility Bay facility in Jamaica where reports and articles have shown, and victims have alleged.

"It occurs to me that what's being said now about Guantanamo Bay is a whole lot like what was said three years ago about Tranquility Bay."

In 2003, CBC interviewed the president of the organization that operates Tranquility Bay and he said:

- Our detainees are not actually prisoners.
- They don't have full human rights because they are under the age of 18.
- They don't have the rights of prisoners because they are not actually prisoners.
- What happens on foreign soil isn't subject to domestic law.
- What our contractors do isn't our moral responsibility.
- Our accusers are trying to push an agenda.
- Detainees' reports of abuse should not be believed because they're juvenile delinquents.
- If - only if - we did the things we are accused of, it would not actually be abuse.
- If - only if - we did the things we are accused of, it wwould be justifiable because of the overwhelmingly important goal that necessitates such measures.
- Look, our goal is really important!

The same exact things were said by the power structure behind Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

In 2003 I said that Tranquility Bay was unacceptable because that entire kind of thing is categorically unacceptable, which I called the qualitative objection, while a lot of people were raising the quantitative objection, which goes like "Tranquility Bay is unacceptable because they carry things farther than can be justified - but such things could be justified, if they were not carried to such an excessive degree." I'm seeing a similar bifurcation in the comments on Guantanamo Bay. I'm glad that I'm hearing more of the qualitative objection this time around. I'm disappointed that it is not universal. And I'm disappointed that the free world, wherever that is, tolerated the existence of Tranquility Bay in 2003, and still seems to. I wonder if tolerating Tranquility Bay is part of the path to tolerating Guantanamo Bay, or vice versa.

Source: http://mskala.livejournal.com/172643.html

http://tranquilitybayabuse.blogspot.com/

Read more on Wiki

http://www.wwaspsinfo.net/tranquilitybay.html

Charges of Cruelty at a Jamaica Discipline Academy



Source: New York Times

http://www.caica.org/NEWS%20-%20TB%20Main.htm

http://www.isaccorp.org/tranquilitybay.asp

http://www.bulletinboards.com/v1.cfm?comcode=Titsch