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Far from Home | Far from Safe [imprintnews.org]

 

By Joaquin Palomino, Sara Tiano, and Cynthia Dizikes, The Imprint, December 11, 2020

A private plane with dozens of shell-shocked teenagers aboard touched down in California’s Central Valley.

They were home now, evacuated from the chaos at Lakeside Academy.

Run by Sequel Youth & Family Services — a for-profit, $500 million company backed by Bay Area investors — Lakeside had promised to put the boys “on a pathway to lead healthy and successful lives.”

Instead, the teens, sent to the Michigan facility by California judges, quickly learned they had landed in a place where children said staff choked, hit and slammed them to the ground.

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