Teen Torture, Inc.

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Their parents think they need tough love to get off drugs or improve their behavior. That’s how many adolescents wind up in a facility for so-called troubled teens. Billed as schools or camps, staff members often use violence to maintain discipline or mete out punishment. For decades, these programs resulted in physical and sexual abuse, deaths, long-lasting trauma, and few consequences for staff or management. Only now, after a series of high-profile incidents and celebrity awareness, attention is focused on the loosely-regulated industry and its legacy of pain.

“Teen Torture, Inc.” from Max Originals is the latest title in the growing true crime subgenre about the billion dollar Troubled Teen Industry. This three part series features survivors from a variety of programs. It also looks into the history of the business, the corporations making money off the families, and the political efforts to add some accountability to the industry.

OUR SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS OF "TEEN TORTURE, INC." BEGIN IN THE FINAL NINE MINUTES OF THE EPISODE.

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