Yesterday he signed a bill targeting abusive “troubled teen” facilities. Someone who will always be special to me was sent to one of these. They’re probably happy right now—that I’ll never know for sure doesn’t even matter.

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The fucked up thing is the way they keep the kids from telling their family what is really happening to them. Like a fascist government, monitoring all correspondence, even when the family comes to see him, it’s totally 1. fake, coached things for him to say and 2. monitored at all times and can be ended at any time.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

Every time I hear about any part of this system, I feel sick