This is horrid!

What's a BOOT camp???
please enlighten me...
Christian is bad enough ...but the BOOT bit added on must be even worse......
hmmmm.....

They are places you send kids that are acting badly
according to the parent or society. They are run in the military style known as boot camp. I n other words
you are treated like maggots. Made to do things against
your will. Programed to be a zombie in the belief that
this kind of fear tactic and demeaning action, will scare you straight.

No wonder our society is so screwed up. If we cant
scare them to go along with our program. Then well
give them drugs.

Negative reinforcement only works so long as the threat of the negative reinforcement is present. Take the threat away and the behavior will always return. (Psyc 101) I guess in the religious environment, it might be an effective means of control. Effective or not, it is still WRONG!

Here they're called Re-education Institutes for minors, and they're state-run... thnaks for the explanation, Cptenaud....