@@reneehoward8936 to do what? They sold the school, the people who own it now weren't in charge when Paris was there. Have u ever seen the documentary kidnapped for christ? Sadly some boarding schools abuse the students, i read about one school that would tie used tampons to students hair/face as punishment
What’s NOT sad is that someone as famous as Paris F*ck*ng Hilton has decided to endure the pain and relive the trauma that comes along with verbalizing (*and filming) your past abuse experience(s), in an effort to shed light on the abuse ranging from what’s been described above- to many other types of other more severe verbal, emotional/psychological and physical abuse. Teenagers/teens are CHILDREN! Shout out Paris Hilton for choosing to do what is no doubt painful for you in an effort to save other CHILDREN from having to suffer similar experiences to those you were faced with as a child. In doing so you are also saving them from the devastating life long effects of experiencing such childhood trauma as well.
This just showed up on my feed. If it had showed up before I wouldn’t have clicked either because I didn’t even know what provo was before Paris. Paris has helped to bring awareness.
To everyone who watches this: I'm Jen, the girl in the video. I would like to make clear that this was video one in a five-part series, and this is not the whole story at all. I was so young here and so fresh out of the program that I still had very little grasp of what happened and still beleived the things they'd trained me to beleive. I am currently working on a project to fully tell the story about kids in the "troubled teen" industry. After this video, I had explained times that I was dragged, left in Observation (isolation) for hours and days at a time, held down and forcibly shot up with without my parents knowledge, etc. I was rebellious but peaceful. I tried to run away. I never lashed out. At times I hurt myself or slept on the floor. That was my only way of protest. I was there two different times. First time around I was not treated as badly because I behaved very well. The second time I rebelled and ran away, and because I was a problem for them they did their worst. Anyone who was there with me knows that this is real. And no matter the reason ANY child gets sent away, they don't deserve to be harmed. Especially not by people claiming to help, and who make a profit off those kids. I went on to work with children and the differently abled. I am an artist, mom, and fortunately a very healthy person. Not because of PCS, but because I refused to let experiences like these sink me. It took years to do that. You will be seeing more for me on this topic! But, mainly, I just wanted to tell you all that this is not my whole story. Thank you. And Thanks for all of your support. Update 2022: I've done a TON more work on this since this comment! You can find some content on my channel (including my whole story) and reflected in the #breakingcodesilence movement (as well as my website www.youthindisorder.com !). So much has changed and its amazing to see! Thank you thank you all of you caring and speaking up!
Hi Jen, I remember you, we were roommates a few times on Unit 3. Your first time around that is. I remember when you came in, they shaved your head and made you wear those awful sweats, it was heartbreaking. I can vouch that everything you're saying it true. I'm so sorry you were sent back. I had absolutely terrifying nightmares just about every night that I had been sent back. They only stopped once I turned 18. The thought of it still gives me chills. My experience was maybe a little different than a lot of people, I made it out pretty quickly by playing their game but I can't say I came out unscathed. I'm so happy to hear you're doing well now. I would love to see part 2 and beyond of this video. -"Kaye"
I went to Provo Canyon, and am wanting to find other survivors so that we together can get this place shut down. They still continue to abuse kids! this must end!
please leave paris a message to expose provo canyon school. she will be live online in 2 days ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wOg0TY1jG3w.html
I hated it. Investment was horrible. This place broke me! A man named Richard ( he ran investment) was the worst But another man named vili bashed my head into a wall
I was a patient there from 1990-1991. I was there for 18 months. It was the WORST experience of my life to date!!! I was 14/15 at the time. I suggest stepping up and being the parent your son needs. My daughters are good girls who stay home and have their friends over to my house. They mind me and respect me because I parent them. Parenting is a hard job. My parents sucked at it. I was alone a lot and had too much time on my hands. YOU can change this. If you love your son, don't send him!!!!
Parents who still send their children and teens here after hearing these stories coming out, just remember your children decide what care home or facility you will go to later and then karma will catch your butt.
I was also a resident in PCS. Horrible. I had my head bashed into a wall by a staff member named Vili. I told my mother and PCs said they would do a investigation. Yeah rite. Needless to say they said it didn’t happen. I’ll take a lie detector test a million times over. That place broke me as a human.
I worked at a school for troubled youth in Jackson Hole Wyoming, very similar to the Provo Canyon school. Except we didn't abuse the children! I wanted to move back to Vivian Park in Provo Canyon so I looked into the Provo School. I spoke with former ( Inmates ) students as we former staff. Each and everyone of them spoke of abuse and hardships for the kids. Each and everyone of them told me I wouldn't be happy working there! When Paris spoke up, it was an awesome act of courage. She spoke of a great many things I was told about by both former students and former staff! I'm not here because of Paris, I'm here to show my support for this courageous young lady speaking and sharing her heartfelt truth. Namaste 🕉️, Bless the beast and the children ☮️
We all remember the "quiet room(s)." Shit goes down in Provo, and staff take extreme liberties with the students. As much abuse as I have suffered in my short life, Provo was extremely traumatic, and I still have nightmares about it. People screaming and crying constantly, those moments when they put small children in the "quiet room(s)" for hours on end for crying, all the while talking down on them, and then forcibly give them shots to MAKE them stop crying. But that was in no way the worst of it. There are things that went on in that place that I can't even describe without crying. Provo strips you of your dignity. I agree with the idea that it is a prison. They tell you that it isn't a form of punishment. But that is in no way true. Children are treated like criminals. Their crime? Asking for help.
Aiden Jackson I went there as well from 00-01 and it was horrific. I was raped by a staff member and suffered many other things. PCS’s solution to a patients insubordination or emotional outburst was usually a shot of Haladol in the ass and then being thrown in A white bricked room called OBS or observation. That or being told to sit in a chair and to stare at a wall while being neglected and ostracizing them for long periods of time while we were told initially to think about what we did wrong. Many times this was for absurd reasons. I suffered from anorexia when I first arrived and the entire 8 months I was there I had to eat double portions for every meal, while being on tray watch.They sat with me and would force me to eat and finish every morsel on my plate until I was done, otherwise I had to sit there until I could finish. I was essentially eating six full meals a day. I went from being 92 pounds to156 by the time I left. I also dealt with cutting issues, and which resulted in body checks. Which I can very much understand being monitored, but sadly had things done to me that were in no way for the betterment of my well being. I find it extremely offensive that you’re implicating THIS MANY people are lying about their encounters, just because you may have had a complete different or positive experience there. However, based on your overtly discriminative attitude and choice of words, I don’t know why I should even expect you to understand or care.
please leave Paris hilton a message urging her to expose Provo canyon school. here is the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wOg0TY1jG3w.html
I spent four months at Provo in 2008. Thankfully my insurance ran out and I was able to leave so soon. There were days where I literally thought I'd died and was in hell. It was so terrible, possibly the worst time of my life.
I wish I knew what went on! I keep trying to see what’s all going on besides physical abuse and emotional which is horrific. But full stories. I hope victims speak out!
I'm so happy Paris is speaking out. I'm still traumatized from my experience at PCS. I was a quiet kid so was able to mostly stay out of 'trouble' myself, but I witnessed a ton of physical abuse, and went through lots of psychological abuse at that school. I hope it gets shutdown.
I was at PCS for 8 months in my late teens. I am now in my mid 20's and i still deal with emotional issues caused by being locked up in provo. I am 25 years old and i STILL have problems trusting my family after being sent to this place at age 17. If you care about your children and your relationship with them, DO NOT SEND YOUR KID TO PROVO CANYON SCHOOL. THEY WILL BE SCARED FOR LIFE!
I am so so sorry you experienced this trauma. No one deserves this kind of treatment, especially a child, someone to be protected. I hope you are getting help and are relearning how to trust again.
I was there for 77-79 I’m 56 now. Those were the years Williams was really brutal and the polygraph/censured Mail/physical abuse had Provo Canyon in federal court! We enjoyed 3 weeks isolated at Lake Powell camping during the trials. Any one else from that period?
So this was 11yrs ago video. Nobody listened to her back then. Thanks to Paris for being voice for so many abused students\kids. I have so much respect for her. Well, I hope she is doing well now. God bless her and Paris and all other students who were abused mentally, physically and emotionally. May all the criminals abusers get jail sentenced.
I knew someone who went to a place like that in the early 90s. I wasn't close with her - she was a friend of a friend, but this conversation always haunted me. We were hanging out after work and the topic of high school came up and I shared my really bad catholic school experience. Then, this acquaintance was like, "Let me tell you about this place in Utah..." and told us about the abuse she suffered. She would recount hearing kids screaming for help within the facilities in the middle of the night, which terrified everyone. Sometimes when she was asleep, she would be dragged out of her bed into a room beaten, stripped naked and locked in there for days with no food, water or bathroom and would never tell her the reason or if she did anything wrong. It was like the school staff would just pick at random a kid to do that with. When we asked her why she was at a place like that, she said her parents were going through problems and she was a teenager acting out. She said she didn't tell her parents about the abuse because the school admin says her parents will think she is lying and she would end up staying longer. I suppose this is how the school continued to get away with what they were doing. This conversation was back in 2006 and I found out that this lady has since passed away, but being that this is in the news now, I want to add my support to take down Provo Canyon and other schools like that as well.
Having been to both, pcs is worse than prison. In prison, there's education, counseling, and all of that, but you also get legal counsel, cigarettes, time to yourself, and you don't get the weird experimental behavior modification psc has, like making you flip a coin each time you speak to tell whether or not you are lying or tying inmates together and making one's discipline dependent on the other. You also know how long you are in for, no mystery of not getting out until you "work the program"
Hi my name is Juana, I went through almost the same thing but it was in a treatment center in Texas called Devereux. Was there for a year in a half, but I know I won’t get recognized because I am not a celebrity
I went to PCS and was the ONLY kid to ever be kicked out….. I beat the system… It was funny as hell….I was there for 3 months.. Getting kicked out is no easy task….. That place is horrible...
I was there for 7 months from Feb-Aug of 2010. Within the first month I was there, I got a haldol shot and went into a neuroleptic shock. I barely remember getting in the ambulance to the hospital in provo. Apparently they couldn't treat me, so I got life flighted to salt lake. I was already taking depakote for epilepsy, and they took me right off, so starting hallucinating when I got back to provo canyon. So they drove me back to salt lake hospital. Was there for about another week. Glad my mom came up from San Diego to stay there with me for a few nights. There's this one staff named mark who tackled me to the ground just because I wouldn't take my sweater off. My therapist was a bitch who made some of the kids cry heard she got fired shortly after I left. Was seeing a therapist during high school to talk about my troubled childhood. I was raised a mormon. That's one of the reasons why my parents sent me there. Fast forward tell I've been smoking weed none stop because I've always been depressed of my past. Took lsd a few times this summer. Never taken it before. It was mostly a pleasant experiences. Stopped smoking for about a month. Started up again just a few days ago, and the memory from that place started hitting me so intense to where I was just sitting up in my bed in a panic with tears running down my face. All the way through high school I had trouble making friends. All I wanna do right now is travel outta country. I already dropped outta college, just been working construction ever since. 😞
You are a warrior I hope you can find the strength and the guidance to open you path and give you a beautiful life you deserve . And help others wake up about therapeutic teen centers and put and end to this . Thank you for sharing
I am just confused at how they believe abuse, and ridicule is suppose to help a "troubled" teen become a "well behaved" citizen. We have no idea on how to help people want to better themselves in this country. It's sickening!
I’m here because I was there at the boys facility I’m 2016-2018. The shit I went through would blow your mind. I’m 22 soon to be 23. I live a great life but traumatized forever.
I hope paris sees this, this is messed up that this video has been up so long and no one has shared it or no one was aware about it. Its awful what has happened to all the students, they did not deserve what happened. Sending all the good energy to anyone who went through this school. ❤️
Holy Crap, they allow phone calls now!! Heck, I didn't even get permission to send letter post for 3 months back in the 90's. This place is the most abusive place I've ever seen. Spent time standing IPs for the only crime I've ever been accused of (and did not commit)
Paris Hilton really exposed the truth about these group homes bless her. Tobad camera phone didn't exist 90s 00s during this time. Thank you for sharing your story much love and respect
Sorry that we didn’t see y’all sooner ♥️ I really do hope y’all are able to get past this. Hopefully the new exposure helps. I’m very sorry what you and the others all went through.
This is hard to listen to . When I was teen I was really skinny. My older brother was bigger ( 6’4”, 300lbs ), and took out all his penned aggression from football and school out on me, literally beat me constantly. He was the football player my parents took up for and bragged about, so they did nothing to stop him. I stayed away from home on my bike and then car until early morning and then wouldn’t go to to school because I was tired from not sleeping. My dad was a judge, and had U.S. Marshals come in my room in the middle of the night, put me in a caged prisoner transport car and take me to an out of state “ re-hab “ with chronic drug abusers, alcoholic kids, etc. , and the Dr. diagnosed me with paranoia and depression ( I was getting the shit beat of me at home ), of course I’d be a nervous wreck. The Dr. there would diagnose whatever the person’s insurance would pay for, and say you’re ready to go home when the insurance ran out. So going back to the same situation, it was a repeat cycle of this FIVE times. I finally got my GED and joined the military at 17 just to get the hell out, and prove to myself I wasn’t crazy, but the middle of the night snatching me up, has severely affected me in the military with insomnia and fear of going to sleep when it was crucial that get rest to continue our missions. My parents fuckd me up bad mentally doing that shit, and it was almost like they thought it was the thing to do to label me as mentally ill because didn’t go to school, never addressing I was getting beat up, so I stayed away from home until morning and then slept through the school hours from exhaustion. The hardest thing is one time when I was a teen, my dad went to a car dealer friend’s business, and the guy asked my dad “ this isn’t the football player, this is your trouble son ?” . How in the fck would you feel as a kid knowing that your parents had said that about you to their friends? It’s like they are promoting you to become a trouble kid, or convincing you to think you’re crazy. I can identify with this %100, and yea the Army became a closer family to me than my own. It fcking suks. . .
Right, you learn more bad things in these places then in the outside world. I had never seen so much in my life… Heard so many stories… Been around so many drugs… Insane and so corrupt. I feel you girl. Stay strong
Keep speaking up you guys! Go viral about it. Expose places like these. I have never been to one of these places, but it sounds like hell. I was a troubled teen and never went to anything like this thank God. What I needed was a clean slate so I moved with my bf at the time to another state. Isolation and feeling alone makes shit so much worse. You are all warriors for being here today!
I feel you girly... I just went there and thankfully got out. it was so abusive and I have never had a more traumatic experience I've ever had... I have PTSD now and I can't even go to Provo city for my life cause I am so terrified....
PTSD? What a joke. In the 90’s when I was there they slammed you into walls, dial 9 meant you hit every door way on the way to investment and the textured wall paper the whole way until investment? Yeah that would remove skin on your face. Then you got to investment where “tiny” would put you in the isolation room and slam you into the wall, put you in jogging shorts, a sweatshirt torn up so bad your arms and stomach were fully exposed and then open the door to the outside with it snowing outside and make you freeze. I’m not complaining I’m simply giving you the information to show what changed my mind I don’t want to be a fuck up my entire life. I’m from Cali and that place changed me, along with a few of the people I know from there. Shame you didn’t learn to be smarter.
@@epileptictrees5213 well I make an excellent salary, I own my own house, multiple cars and motorcycles, oh yeah and I don’t cry like a little bitch because I decided to stop using drugs and stop getting arrested and enjoy my life because that place changed the way I viewed things. Maybe you wouldn’t have went there if you would have stopped fucking up every other chance before they sent you there. No one would have changed without that place putting you in your place and obviously since you’re acting like you’re abused nothing will change you from being a fuck up. Keep blaming everyone else instead of looking at the common issue: you.
@@jaredweldy929 your anger issues and need to attack shows you have some suppressed emotions going on in your mind body and heart. Hope you face them. Paris hilton is bringing this place DOWN!
.. this is quite a story ..what these young people endured..when I was young..about ten my parents mostly my mom tried to get rid of me...for various reasons.. the plan was to send me to some full time military school..i I was refered to or called "the damn kid" it t never happened..I remember how it felt not being wanted.. one time my father beat me so bad I bled thru the back for a week... I would have run away but had no money or place to go..all this got better as time went on.. for what its worth I can really relate to these kids stories and their situations... I think a lot of this goes on... Thanks to Paris Hilton for exposing the Provo torture school... it is my understanding these places are inspected by the state... but they know when they are coming and clean the place up..also, the interview with Paris's mom.. she claims she didnt know what was going on...!!.. good job mom...
My hearts with you. Was there in 2007 or 2008 can’t remember. Stay strong you made it through ✊ Edit: I was about 12 or 13 when I went in, was halfway through 8th grade
So many videos about this, I feel so bad I'm just finding out about this. Came here from Psychology in Seattle's review of the Paris doc. I feel so ignorant that I didn't know about this. I'm so sorry about what you went through. ANYONE, is there anyway I can help?
It's pretty bad what happens to kids in schools. I have tried to find a teacher from high school from many years ago, so I can do to him what he did to me, just to make sure he knows what sudden pain, fear and humiliation feels like.
Did she never say um before her time at the school? If she said "you know" instead of "um", is that the same or different? She has brown hair now, is that part of her trauma?
Honestly if I could afford a lawyer to go up against this place with the PTSD trauma I gained after being there, from the screams, crying, awful frightening things I’ve heard and seen that I literally die just to think about and I’m holding tears back as I write this just because I finally feel I haven’t been alone in my thoughts about how awful this place is and how much harm it’s caused me. There are others. You guys. This place took what strength I had left in me and took it down so many levels I still can’t even get back to the state I was in before this place. :”( I hope places like this get shut down. I gained three stalkers from that place one being a registered sex offender that I have no idea how any of them found me. Guessing social media but I never felt safe. Feared I’d get kicked or punched on accident of purposely but other patients constantly standing there crying in the middle of it all and stuck there forced to take drugs and comply even though I could hardly stay awake sitting up in my chair from all their medication just so I could get out of the place! This place really left me scarred. :”(
I would love to know the owners names. I know new ownership took over, but it'd be nice to know names and who was responsible, and put it out on social media and expose the shit out of them.
Wow that place sucked. Seriously. My heart goes out to anyone that went though what i went through. I think Im still the only person ever to be kicked out of there though. Spent a couple of months in a stone room to do it, however. That was pretty painful, and they never turned the lights off. Turns out, I have Autism. They never Diagnosed me. Some Proffessionals, right? Pack of thugs came and beat you up whenever you disagreed with "authority". Seriously. It was SO freaking Childish.
I was at PCS from 96-98 with Paris Hilton and Katarina VonDrakkenberg (Kat Von D). First, Paris did not escape. She was removed by her mother Kathy because in 3 months time there she gained 20 lbs. Her mother believed the the extra weight would ruin Paris fron success in modeling. These kids are not lying. The horrors there are true. I never got off investment. The treatment at PCS is to break your children first only to rebuild them minus their issues. I am an attorney now despite PCS.
Paris and her mother both claimed she never wanted Paris to model and in the documentary said she was there for 12 months and was out by the time she turned 18 , then she began to live her life the way she wanted to including some modeling
For my case, it was partially my fault sort of my parents. But they didn't no what it was gonna be like nor did I. So I'm not mad at them at all about going there. They saw how miserable I was. I acted up almost every day I was there to the point that they kicked me out of there. I knew that it would eventually happen. I'm surprised I managed to get my Eagle in boy scouts, and graduated high school after that also.
I recently heard your more recent testimony . And it really struck a chord. Haveing spent 4 years in straight inc. I could identify with everybody of it. And alot I had suppressed it's really helping me to finally start putting myself back together. Thank you jenn
hi i also went here along with the same girl in this video. i was just trying to show my now husband the abuse that does go on here in us. ass a teen i aslo dabled in drugs i remember this clearly bc i was questioned and put on investmentment due to a girl named alyssa i was friends with who ran way.where i was saved on my 17th bday by my parents running out of money. this place is living nightmare. to put it in the least words possible. you are treated as less than an inamate. i remember a drug councler who by the way had never even drank alcohol telling me bc i was from Californian and not Mormon i was going to hell. not say they all did this but i remembered this later when i did build my faith in Christianity at what a crazy place this was. i look back on a number of incidents regarding provo canyon and i further regard the public to not only question the safety of its keepings but the sanity that any place like this has the power over anyones constitutional rights still remain open
that place realy fucked me up too.. the things i saw ther at pcs.... i will never forget...it haunts me til i die.. those sick fucks.. im so sorry you had to experience it all too..
I went to a abusive school to in '98 called Tranquility Bay in Jamaica. There is a Wikipedia about it. There are multiple abusive schools/programs. My heart goes out to everyone who was hurt also.
Growing up I had 3 friends get dragged off to these places. One of them was so different when she came out it seemed she was afraid of people. Another came out and spiraled until her death. Not sure what happened to the third. The stories that came out after they were eventually released were disgusting. Rampant abuse of all kinds. If you want to help your children - this isn't the way.
This was part of a 5 part series I did over 10 years ago! I'd taken them all down because I was scared but someone pirated this one and kept it up. I learned so much after this video and have spoken a lot on this subject. If you look up Youth In Disorder I break down this industry a bit and tell my whole story! Thank you for caring.
My last day there I got the names & addresses of about 30 kids the staff found the paper & sent all the kids to Devo for punishment there deadly afraid of us getting together in the real world.tecknology will be their undoing..😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
@lisandy777 Shame on any parent who willingly places their child in one of these facilities. I made a point to really talk to every girl who was enrolled with me at PCS, and not =one= of them was as bad, or "at risk" as they were made out to be. Sexual abuse is prevalent in these facilities, and, sadly, death from misuse of restraints and sedatives are not unheard of. If you were worried about the mortality & chastity of your child, you made an egregious choice in sending her away.
Insurance , Insurance, Insurance.... The better Insurance the longer and more often ....let's not forget the Aftercare. Insurance Insurance.... INSURANCE !!!!!!! $12,000 / month. Per patient. No Insurance, then you must be " Well " or just plain " Cured "
Hi this patty's granddaughter, i'm going to provo school tomorrow. if i get abused there or anything else happens i AM not afraid to grab one of the staffs badge and run the hell out of there. just pray to god that i survive the next three months and if not then i'm going to go to the police or my mom. hope all goes well
If you can, make a safe word with your grandma before you go so you can tell her if you need help on the phone since staff are listening. I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I would be happy to talk to you, your grandma, or parents any time. Don't give up.
This shit crazy i got my arm broke and didnt go to the hospital for three weeks the staff used too make fun of me and tell to take my sling intill they took me to the hospital and seen i needed surgery and i had to get four screws in my shoulder to keep my bones in place and had the audacity to send my grandmother the Bill i i was 14 at that time.
They need to close that school down !😡 iam sorry you went though that horrible stuff !! Just sooo mess up school. I apologize for their behavior i really ..!😞🙏
