The following translation of Stefania Medetti's article "Sons zero tolerance" in La Repubblica was made in the following manner.  The overall translation was done electronically by AltaVista's Babel Fish Translator. The last 28 or so lines was made by Stefania Medetti herself for Wes Fager as they applied to Wes Fager and Stefania's interview with Wes Fager.  Wes Fager has reworded some of Stephania's words to make her translation more readible in English.  Following the translation is Stephania's original  translation and AltaVista's original translation.

TRANSLATION OF STEFANIA'S ARTICLE FOLLOWS:
The present time
Sons zero tolerance
USA Depression, ugly ballots, conflicts with the parents: enough little in order to end in a "institute for the modification of the behavior". From which it is exited it always marks to you in order
of Stefania Medetti
Photo of N. Welch
Photo of M. Almeida
Between the 15 and 17 years, Shelby Earnshaw has passed 28 months in an institute of rieducazione for adolescents. "they have been locked up in one of the Straight centers because every a lot marinavo the school and I made drug use". She is survivor to the experience, difference of the greater part of its companions. Now, adult and mother of six sons, are general manager of Isac, International Survivors Action Committee, a committee that strikes itself in order to defend children and adolescents victims of abuses perpetrate to you in structures for the modification of the character. Deficit of attention, depression, insufficient scholastic rendering, real or presumed use of drugs, but also difficult relationships with the family: ognuna of these it is a sufficient reason for being locked up, without process, in a school or in a rieducazione field, where the boys come deal to you like criminals. They exist some in the United States, but also in Giamaica, Mexico and to Samoa. "They are true private centers of detainment, where orribili things happen", Earnshaw explains. "and however, to remove the boys from the atmosphere that is they familiar it is not one solution". The medium bourgeoisie American white woman, but, thinks it various. And therefore the safekeeping of the own sons to structures entrusts from which they cannot exit. According to Mike Males, author of the Framing test youth (more or less, "to embed the youth"), the industry of the carcerazione and the druggist treatments for the young people in the United States records a turnover of 25 billions of dollars, with a rate of growth of the 45 for hundreds the year. The structures, considered "a soft" alternative to the ospedalizzazione in psychiatric institute, are distinguished in two categories based on the severità. The so-called the programs of increase move them and modification of the behavior is translate in survival fields, in which the contact with the wild nature it is used like instrument of catarsi; objective, the riavvicinamento of the adolescent to the family. The colleges, instead, are residential centers set up to you to Christian values or from the paramilitary guideline; of usual they demand a minimal permanence of a year and, beyond to the "riprogrammazione" of the host, they promise to the parents also to work on turns out to you you drained to us. The truth is still rawer. The total deprivation of the personal freedom is the main instrument in order to cancel the will of "the stopped" young people, with the objective to give back one new will to they, social more adaptable. "To 16 years they have arrived to Genesis, in Mexico", remembers Adriana Mitchell, "a place that, normally, is looked at alone in films". For the first three months of permanence, Adriana has been every continuation in its movement from a buddier, a companion. "For being able to go to the bath - exclusively of day, because of night it was not allowed - I had to ask he, and to wait for until that me it did not carry to us. In more, it could not be watched from the windows in direction of the road, but only towards the sea. Also the social contacts were subordinate to you to iron rules: I could communicate with the staff and two, three girls ". Not only the physical quality of the interpersonal relationships and, quite, distances to hold are regolamenta you with severità: six levels, and a complicated system of scores in case of violation of the rules, separates the boys from the real life. "To the first level, the student participates to all the previewed activities, but she must always be followed from a member of the staff", establishes the regulations of the centers affiliates to you to Wwasp, World Wide Association of Speciality Programs, the structured organization more in the field of the riabilitazione programs. Once he accumulates one hundred merits to you, the boy can pass to according to level, where he has straight to buy snack to the store of the center. Arrived to the third party, he can telephone once to the family to the month. The conversations with the parents are monitorate, "for being sure that they are online with the program", explain Amber Kolpin, mother of Emma, locked up to 17 years. Like in a videogame of the horror, the violations of the rules send back to the beginning of the program the student, burdened from additional demerits, tasks or fines in money debited the parents. To the income, analogous to how much it happens in a jail, the previewed objects are not confiscated without restitution guarantee. One student of the Carolina Spring Academy, college that standard traditional values and is recognized from the State of the Carolina of the South, can possess, beyond to the Bible, a limited number of apparel heads, one parure of sheet, covered and produced for the personal hygiene; nient' other. It establishes the contract siglato from the parents, that it attributes to the college the faculty to act in they vece, beyond to the right of perquisire the property and the person of the son and deciding for all the issues tied to its health, well-being and formation. The school has the power "to take part physically, to control and to lock up the student", in how much detentrice del legal control and della enrolled physical guard degli. What the not specific contract, is the modalities of application of the rules: "there were ridicules punishments for every thing", remembers Nick Bosmond, 20 years, that it has discounted 16 months to the Family Foundation School di Hancock, New York, one structure of modification of the behavior (reason: to 15 years it wanted to abandon the studies). "they made Us to be in the angle for weeks, to raise the ginocchia to the height of the life when we walked, sorridere even if we did not have any wants. Moreover, they screaied to us against orribili things, things that I never did not say to nobody. Us inculcavano the concept who we were of the invalidities, and that the only possibility to become good persons was to accept God in our screw ". In many cases, above all for the affiliated truths to Wwasp, the rieducazione is involved also the parents, that they are calls to participate to you to increase seminaries moves them for the recovery of the familiar values. "In theory, this would have to facilitate the process of" guarigione "", comments Amber Kolpin, "but we have found offensive to have to follow a seminary of three days in order to see our daughter". According to Earnshaw, the seminaries have one hidden function: "They are a brainwashing. They convince the parents that the offered service is the solution to their problems and that the sons, when if of it they complain, they are in truth trying to manipulate them. Without these seminaries, not creed that the programs could make what they make ". To the young people that refuse to cooperate with the program, particular rules are applied. In the isolation case, the procedure of the Wwasp centers assures the basic necessities, as the food or the use of the toilette. Also here, obviously, with the most rigid rules. To knife and fork are not granted, in order to prevent to the student to make of the evil to if same or others. Particular diet is previewed one. In bath it can be only gone "when it is truly necessary", recites the regulations. "the constant vigilance regards also the use of the toilette". "If we did not submit ourselves to the punishments", it still remembers Bosmond, "removed us the food until we did not become malleable. If someone tried to scappare, the shoes requisite it. Who urlava or imprecava she came immobilized and locked up in an isolation premises that smelled of urine ". States like the Utah, the Montana or the Missouri of the sort do not demand some licence for the opening of structures; consequently, anyone can found one, and the social servicings do not have some faculty of participation. The Child Protective Service cannot inspect the schools without the permission of the property. "If you misused my sons", Shelby Earnshaw comments, "if you closed them in a room for days, you deprived them of the food and of the use of the bath, they would be removed to me, and a lot probably I would end in jail. But I can pay someone that the face impunemente to my place ". At the moment, esteem that at least 15 mila students Americans are locked up in institutes of modification of the behavior, even if does not exist given official in purpose. "It is difficult to have precise numbers, because the truths are numerous, and often independent one from the other", confirmation Jan Moss, executive director of Natsap, National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs; the association collects a hundred of professionals of the rieducazione that, from 1999, has decided of gives an ethical code and of behavior. It is sure but that the fashion of the institutes of rieducazione for adolescent rebels does not know bendings: "there is more and more need of schools that know to deal with boys that they do not work well in the system (sic)", declares from the Colorado James Wall, megaphone of the Wwasp programs. To the operating structures on the USA territory those external join. Pubblicizzate to the parents like formative opportunities and of increase, thanks also to the cultural comparison with foreign communities, are in truth centers of maximum discipline. The zero tolerance policy ago of these colleges solution discounted for all the cases in which the adolescent program of a USA institute is not submitted al. In many situations, the contract siglato from the parents authorizes the organization to directly obtain passports and approvals of income for the students, and to proceed to their registration and transfer in the structure outside from the Country. In the sudest of the Giamaica, to Mandeville, along a far beach from the centers it lives to you, rises Tranquility Bay. With House by the Sea it is the program, affiliated Wwasp, to greater rate severità. The rasserenante name does not draw in deceit: the young survivors report hygiene lack, long sdraiati hours of punishment on the pavements of the isolation rooms, physical and oral violences. Like in every center, the human relations between the prisoners are rendered difficult from iron regulations. To some video the task of catechizzarli on social more adaptable modalities of existence. "Outside from the United States, the living conditions in these structures they are, if possible, still it gets worse", it supports Earnshaw. "the local authorities are not interested of how much happen in a college of foreign property; the same indifference from part of the USA authorities, since the center is external to the territory of they competence ". Around the business of the riabilitazione programs, gravitano services added to you like those of supply, that they save to the parents the risks and the problems legacies to the removal of a difficult boy. "They are enters to you in my room to the five of the mattino, have handcuffed to me and they have dragged to me on a coach, where the suitcase prepared from my parents waited for me", Mark D. remembers, that standard of a transport is passed through the procedure. But understood also that the young person is made in the light of to capture from the family the sun - outside from the school or for road - under the look incredulo of the present ones. Randy Stewman, 36 years, senior transport agent of the LAST Transport Service, one small independent truth of the Utah, has all'.attivo nearly three hundred services, completed in last the five years towards one sessantina of various centers. "Only in a ten of cases", it asserts with one heads of pride, to testimony of the own professionality, "I have had to make resorted to the throttles". To the parents the task is up to wake up the son, but then leaving free field the agents. "Many boys burst to cry", admit Stewman, "but we try to render their travel pleasant: we have also video cassettes to make they to see in car. And the parents write to the sons explanation letters ". The cost of the service is gone around around the 1.500-2.000 dollars for the 24 hours, but altogether it can arrive also to tens of migliaia of dollars, to second of the demanded service and the destination. The calculation, obviously, does not comprise the psychological costs: "Still more for an adolescent, being dragged via from disowned can be a lot disturbing", comments Earnshaw, "without to count that, formally, draft of a rapimento". They are above all the families of the medium bourgeoisie white woman to send the sons in these structures, but they do not lack approachable alternatives for who not if it can allow them. "Also in these centers ripropone the class distinction that exists outside", Maia Szalavitz comments, 41enne author of the recent Helping test at any cost, "To help at all costs". "In those more beloveds the sons of the rich ones find themselves, in the other boys of color". For the programs of riabilitazione in the nature, the expense for the previewed minimal permanence, three months, oscillates between the 13 and 25 mila dollars, and the acceptance is subordinated to the possession of an adapted sanitary cover. Assurances disposed do not lack to make forehead at least a part of costs of the service. Deductible from the taxes, straight the anniversary of the colleges varied from the 30 to the 50 mila dollars the year. The situated ones of all the programs of riabilitazione indicate possible shapes of financing. Other modalities are suggested from the same schools. "Little after the registration of our Emma daughter", Amber Kolpin remembers, "received a letter from Glenda, the person with which we had spoken in order to find a structure adapted to our requirements. The letter informed to us that we could obtain a reduction of thousand dollars from the straight salary, if we had marked the name of an other upgrades them student ". It adds Earnshaw: "there are families that they have more than a locked up son and others that, quite, have made of the rieducazione an activity: beyond 200 situated ones informed they make head to you private ". The schools propagandano high rates happening, from the 80 to the 96 for hundreds, and shapes of guarantee: until six months after the completion of the course, if a boy falls back in the previous behaviors is riammesso to the school gratis for 60 days. For this Adriana Mitchell, that it cohabits with the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress, inheritance of the riabilitazione center, confesses: "For years I have lived with the terror of being locked up newly". One of the reasons for which this type of structures continuous, in spite of everything, to exist, it is the "mix perverso of shame and pride from which we are conditions to you", comments Szalavitz. "the persons who have been victims of these centers prefer not to tell it, while who is some as soon as exited she is carried to support of the validity, in order not to newly run the risk to be labeled like social dangerous". But how much frequent one is the resource to the colleges? "We say that on a group of four, five persons", answer the essayist, "at least or it has been locked up or she knows directly someone - a relative or a friend - than it has been. Insomma, the former prisoners are not the majority, but sure they form one meaningful minority ". The phenomenon is fed also from the mass media, complains Szalavitz, that they stretch to maintain one neutral position, offering to public the one balanced mix of opinions for and against. "We are victims of one insane propaganda: the result is that the cure is revealed worse of the problem. But the persons on the pretext of "fixing them" cannot themselves be hurt. It means that this Country has lost the own compassion ". Of forehead to the furtiveness of the institutions Americans, three years ago the Isac committee has addressed the United Nations, and has sended one petition of denunciation of the phenomenon to the Commission for the rights of the man. Little later weeks, Markus Schmidt, secretary of Isac, it has made to know that the demand had been rejected. "the Committee against the torture", explained the answer letter, "it cannot consider petitions that evidence violations of the Convention against the tortures, less than the State from which they come it has recognized the competence of the Committee to receive them and to consider them. The United States have not ratified the agreement ". While, some boy in the "rieducazione" leaves the life. The last case laughed them to slid January: Martin Lee Anderson, an Afro-American of 14 years, is not survivor to the first day in a field of Florida, because it has tried to resist to the internamento procedure. The skills on its dead women alternate explanations: from an excess of violence from part of the staff of the field to natural causes. In attended that the justice is pronounced the field it has been closed. That although, the continuous system to prosper. Guilt of nearly the total absence of movements coordinates you of denunciation; probably tied absence a lot, according to Earnshaw, to the stigma of drugged (or presumed such) applied to the adolescents locked up. According to Bosmond, instead, "the greater part of the boys that exits from these schools wants simply to let to the shoulders the experience more soon possible". Very various warning James Wall, that it declares: "the groups that contrast the rights of the parents move critical much sour to the programs. The champions of the adolescents believe that these hooligans must be leave you free to make what they want. And therefore they try sabotare who, effectively, tries to help the boys and their families ". In truth, solos the suicides, the dead men sospette or the denunciations of violence can put in argument the activity of these structures. Therefore it has been, as an example, for the Straight centers, inspires you to the cultures new age and technical particular of control of the thought of Chinese origin. I found you to the half of years ' 80 from Mel and Betty Sembler, constructors of centers trades them and powerful supporters of the Republican party, the Straight have earned an increasing role in anti-drug politics of the United States, and they are multiplies you until 129 structures that close generate a turnover to hundreds the million dollars the year. One after the other, and the last one in 1993, all these truths have been sluices, as a result of denunciations for ill-treatments from part of former students. 
[The remaining 28 lines are translated by  Stefania Medetti and Wes Fager] In 2001, Mel Sembler moved to via Vittorio Veneto, Rome as the American Ambassador appointed by George Bush. Sembler boasts on his Department of State web page to “have cured 12 thousand young people, thanks to his programme against drugs”. His holy image is compromised by Wes Fager, a father who made discovering the truth about Straight his crusade:   "In 1989, following the suggestion of a social worker, I placed my son Bill (then age 15) in a Straight Center in Virginia  because I thought he was on drugs,"  says Fager.  Five months later when Fager (who has recently launched an informative web site www.thestraights.com )  finally took Bill out of Straight, he says Bill was a different person.  "Bill had continuous nervous breakdowns. Doctors agreed that staying in that centre worsened his problems. The Semblers should be in jail for what they did. But how could that be possible since the people who should investigate them sit on the Advisory Board for Drug Free America Foundation [Straight]?"  Fager concludes.  

Once the curtain closed on the Straight pedagogical adventure, from the ashes of Straight Semblers created a foundation, Drug Free America Foundation (DFAF).  . Its objective is to inform American parents on the dangers of drugs, marjuana in particular, the so called gateway drug, because – as the experts of the foundation state –it can lead to the consumption of heroin, cocain and amphethamines. In the advisory board, next to Semblers, there’s William G. Bankhead, secretary of department for Youth Justice in Florida and Florida's governor and the brother of the President Jeb Bush.  

The herritage of Straight has been incorporated into many follow-on groups: Safe, Growing Together, Kids Helping Kids are only some of the names parents can contact in case they face – real or supposed – problems with their teenagers. Drug doesn’t top worries of the families: "The media makes us believe that new behavioural disorders are heading us to a modern apocalypse,"  says Earnshaw. "To me, ADD means only to be a child. And having problems with parents is part of being a teen."  One thing is sure: trying to “reprogramme” teen-agers doesn’t work. The example of Bill Fager, today 31, proves it: "My son is schizophrenic," declares Fager senior with painful simplicity .
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Here is a personal translation for Wes Fager by the article's author Stefania Medetti of those parts of her article which mention Wes Fager:
In 2001, Mel Sembler moved to Rome, in via Vittorio Veneto, promoted American Ambassador by George Bush. Sembler boasts, as the web page of Department of State declares, to “have cured 12thousand young people, thanks to his programme against drugs”. His holy image is compromised by Wes Fager, a father who made discovering the truth about Straight his crusade: «In 1989, following the suggestion of a social assistant, I subscribed my son Bill, at that time 15, in a Straight Center in Virginia, because I thought he was on drugs». Five months later Fager – that has recently launched an informative web site www.thestraights.com - met a different guy: «Bill had continuous nervous breakdown. Doctors agreed that staying in that centre worsened his problems. Semblers should be in jail for what they did. But how could that be possible if they sit with the people who should incriminate in the advisory board of Drug Free America Foundation?». Once the courtain closed on the pedagogical adventure, from the ashes of Straight Semblers created a foundation, Dfaf. Its objective is to inform the American parents on the dangers of drugs, marjuana in particular, the so called gateway drug, because – as the experts of the foundation state – can lead to the consumption of heroin, cocain and amphethamine. In the advisory board, next to Semblers, there’s William G. Bankhead, secretary of department for Youth Justice in Florida (sorry, translation of this is really rough!) and Jeb Bush, Florida governor and brother of the president. The hineritage of Straight has been collected by numerous groups: Safe, Growing Together, Kids helping kids are only some of the names parents can contact in case they face – real or supposed – problems with their teen-agers. Drug doesn’t top worries of the families: «Media make us believe that new behavioural disorders are preparing a modern apocalypse», ends Earnshaw. «To me, ADD means only to be a child. And having problems with parents is part of being a teen». One thing is sure: trying to “reprogramme” teen-agers doesn’t work. The example of Bill Fager, today 31, proves it: «My son is schizofrenic», declares with painful simplicity Fager senior.

Here is a translation of the entire article using AltaVista's Babel Fish's Translator.  
The present time
Sons zero tolerance
USA Depression, ugly ballots, conflicts with the parents: enough little in order to end in a "institute for the modification of the behavior". From which it is exited it always marks to you in order
of Stefania Medetti
Photo of N. Welch
Photo of M. Almeida
Between the 15 and 17 years, Shelby Earnshaw has passed 28 months in an institute of rieducazione for adolescents. "they have been locked up in one of the Straight centers because every a lot marinavo the school and I made drug use". She is survivor to the experience, difference of the greater part of its companions. Now, adult and mother of six sons, are general manager of Isac, International Survivors Action Committee, a committee that strikes itself in order to defend children and adolescents victims of abuses perpetrate to you in structures for the modification of the character. Deficit of attention, depression, insufficient scholastic rendering, real or presumed use of drugs, but also difficult relationships with the family: ognuna of these it is a sufficient reason for being locked up, without process, in a school or in a rieducazione field, where the boys come deal to you like criminals. They exist some in the United States, but also in Giamaica, Mexico and to Samoa. "They are true private centers of detainment, where orribili things happen", Earnshaw explains. "and however, to remove the boys from the atmosphere that is they familiar it is not one solution". The medium bourgeoisie American white woman, but, thinks it various. And therefore the safekeeping of the own sons to structures entrusts from which they cannot exit. According to Mike Males, author of the Framing test youth (more or less, "to embed the youth"), the industry of the carcerazione and the druggist treatments for the young people in the United States records a turnover of 25 billions of dollars, with a rate of growth of the 45 for hundreds the year. The structures, considered "a soft" alternative to the ospedalizzazione in psychiatric institute, are distinguished in two categories based on the severità. The so-called the programs of increase move them and modification of the behavior is translate in survival fields, in which the contact with the wild nature it is used like instrument of catarsi; objective, the riavvicinamento of the adolescent to the family. The colleges, instead, are residential centers set up to you to Christian values or from the paramilitary guideline; of usual they demand a minimal permanence of a year and, beyond to the "riprogrammazione" of the host, they promise to the parents also to work on turns out to you you drained to us. The truth is still rawer. The total deprivation of the personal freedom is the main instrument in order to cancel the will of "the stopped" young people, with the objective to give back one new will to they, social more adaptable. "To 16 years they have arrived to Genesis, in Mexico", remembers Adriana Mitchell, "a place that, normally, is looked at alone in films". For the first three months of permanence, Adriana has been every continuation in its movement from a buddier, a companion. "For being able to go to the bath - exclusively of day, because of night it was not allowed - I had to ask he, and to wait for until that me it did not carry to us. In more, it could not be watched from the windows in direction of the road, but only towards the sea. Also the social contacts were subordinate to you to iron rules: I could communicate with the staff and two, three girls ". Not only the physical quality of the interpersonal relationships and, quite, distances to hold are regolamenta you with severità: six levels, and a complicated system of scores in case of violation of the rules, separates the boys from the real life. "To the first level, the student participates to all the previewed activities, but she must always be followed from a member of the staff", establishes the regulations of the centers affiliates to you to Wwasp, World Wide Association of Speciality Programs, the structured organization more in the field of the riabilitazione programs. Once he accumulates one hundred merits to you, the boy can pass to according to level, where he has straight to buy snack to the store of the center. Arrived to the third party, he can telephone once to the family to the month. The conversations with the parents are monitorate, "for being sure that they are online with the program", explain Amber Kolpin, mother of Emma, locked up to 17 years. Like in a videogame of the horror, the violations of the rules send back to the beginning of the program the student, burdened from additional demerits, tasks or fines in money debited the parents. To the income, analogous to how much it happens in a jail, the previewed objects are not confiscated without restitution guarantee. One student of the Carolina Spring Academy, college that standard traditional values and is recognized from the State of the Carolina of the South, can possess, beyond to the Bible, a limited number of apparel heads, one parure of sheet, covered and produced for the personal hygiene; nient' other. It establishes the contract siglato from the parents, that it attributes to the college the faculty to act in they vece, beyond to the right of perquisire the property and the person of the son and deciding for all the issues tied to its health, well-being and formation. The school has the power "to take part physically, to control and to lock up the student", in how much detentrice del legal control and della enrolled physical guard degli. What the not specific contract, is the modalities of application of the rules: "there were ridicules punishments for every thing", remembers Nick Bosmond, 20 years, that it has discounted 16 months to the Family Foundation School di Hancock, New York, one structure of modification of the behavior (reason: to 15 years it wanted to abandon the studies). "they made Us to be in the angle for weeks, to raise the ginocchia to the height of the life when we walked, sorridere even if we did not have any wants. Moreover, they screaied to us against orribili things, things that I never did not say to nobody. Us inculcavano the concept who we were of the invalidities, and that the only possibility to become good persons was to accept God in our screw ". In many cases, above all for the affiliated truths to Wwasp, the rieducazione is involved also the parents, that they are calls to participate to you to increase seminaries moves them for the recovery of the familiar values. "In theory, this would have to facilitate the process of" guarigione "", comments Amber Kolpin, "but we have found offensive to have to follow a seminary of three days in order to see our daughter". According to Earnshaw, the seminaries have one hidden function: "They are a brainwashing. They convince the parents that the offered service is the solution to their problems and that the sons, when if of it they complain, they are in truth trying to manipulate them. Without these seminaries, not creed that the programs could make what they make ". To the young people that refuse to cooperate with the program, particular rules are applied. In the isolation case, the procedure of the Wwasp centers assures the basic necessities, as the food or the use of the toilette. Also here, obviously, with the most rigid rules. To knife and fork are not granted, in order to prevent to the student to make of the evil to if same or others. Particular diet is previewed one. In bath it can be only gone "when it is truly necessary", recites the regulations. "the constant vigilance regards also the use of the toilette". "If we did not submit ourselves to the punishments", it still remembers Bosmond, "removed us the food until we did not become malleable. If someone tried to scappare, the shoes requisite it. Who urlava or imprecava she came immobilized and locked up in an isolation premises that smelled of urine ". States like the Utah, the Montana or the Missouri of the sort do not demand some licence for the opening of structures; consequently, anyone can found one, and the social servicings do not have some faculty of participation. The Child Protective Service cannot inspect the schools without the permission of the property. "If you misused my sons", Shelby Earnshaw comments, "if you closed them in a room for days, you deprived them of the food and of the use of the bath, they would be removed to me, and a lot probably I would end in jail. But I can pay someone that the face impunemente to my place ". At the moment, esteem that at least 15 mila students Americans are locked up in institutes of modification of the behavior, even if does not exist given official in purpose. "It is difficult to have precise numbers, because the truths are numerous, and often independent one from the other", confirmation Jan Moss, executive director of Natsap, National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs; the association collects a hundred of professionals of the rieducazione that, from 1999, has decided of gives an ethical code and of behavior. It is sure but that the fashion of the institutes of rieducazione for adolescent rebels does not know bendings: "there is more and more need of schools that know to deal with boys that they do not work well in the system (sic)", declares from the Colorado James Wall, megaphone of the Wwasp programs. To the operating structures on the USA territory those external join. Pubblicizzate to the parents like formative opportunities and of increase, thanks also to the cultural comparison with foreign communities, are in truth centers of maximum discipline. The zero tolerance policy ago of these colleges solution discounted for all the cases in which the adolescent program of a USA institute is not submitted al. In many situations, the contract siglato from the parents authorizes the organization to directly obtain passports and approvals of income for the students, and to proceed to their registration and transfer in the structure outside from the Country. In the sudest of the Giamaica, to Mandeville, along a far beach from the centers it lives to you, rises Tranquility Bay. With House by the Sea it is the program, affiliated Wwasp, to greater rate severità. The rasserenante name does not draw in deceit: the young survivors report hygiene lack, long sdraiati hours of punishment on the pavements of the isolation rooms, physical and oral violences. Like in every center, the human relations between the prisoners are rendered difficult from iron regulations. To some video the task of catechizzarli on social more adaptable modalities of existence. "Outside from the United States, the living conditions in these structures they are, if possible, still it gets worse", it supports Earnshaw. "the local authorities are not interested of how much happen in a college of foreign property; the same indifference from part of the USA authorities, since the center is external to the territory of they competence ". Around the business of the riabilitazione programs, gravitano services added to you like those of supply, that they save to the parents the risks and the problems legacies to the removal of a difficult boy. "They are enters to you in my room to the five of the mattino, have handcuffed to me and they have dragged to me on a coach, where the suitcase prepared from my parents waited for me", Mark D. remembers, that standard of a transport is passed through the procedure. But understood also that the young person is made in the light of to capture from the family the sun - outside from the school or for road - under the look incredulo of the present ones. Randy Stewman, 36 years, senior transport agent of the LAST Transport Service, one small independent truth of the Utah, has all'.attivo nearly three hundred services, completed in last the five years towards one sessantina of various centers. "Only in a ten of cases", it asserts with one heads of pride, to testimony of the own professionality, "I have had to make resorted to the throttles". To the parents the task is up to wake up the son, but then leaving free field the agents. "Many boys burst to cry", admit Stewman, "but we try to render their travel pleasant: we have also video cassettes to make they to see in car. And the parents write to the sons explanation letters ". The cost of the service is gone around around the 1.500-2.000 dollars for the 24 hours, but altogether it can arrive also to tens of migliaia of dollars, to second of the demanded service and the destination. The calculation, obviously, does not comprise the psychological costs: "Still more for an adolescent, being dragged via from disowned can be a lot disturbing", comments Earnshaw, "without to count that, formally, draft of a rapimento". They are above all the families of the medium bourgeoisie white woman to send the sons in these structures, but they do not lack approachable alternatives for who not if it can allow them. "Also in these centers ripropone the class distinction that exists outside", Maia Szalavitz comments, 41enne author of the recent Helping test at any cost, "To help at all costs". "In those more beloveds the sons of the rich ones find themselves, in the other boys of color". For the programs of riabilitazione in the nature, the expense for the previewed minimal permanence, three months, oscillates between the 13 and 25 mila dollars, and the acceptance is subordinated to the possession of an adapted sanitary cover. Assurances disposed do not lack to make forehead at least a part of costs of the service. Deductible from the taxes, straight the anniversary of the colleges varied from the 30 to the 50 mila dollars the year. The situated ones of all the programs of riabilitazione indicate possible shapes of financing. Other modalities are suggested from the same schools. "Little after the registration of our Emma daughter", Amber Kolpin remembers, "received a letter from Glenda, the person with which we had spoken in order to find a structure adapted to our requirements. The letter informed to us that we could obtain a reduction of thousand dollars from the straight salary, if we had marked the name of an other upgrades them student ". It adds Earnshaw: "there are families that they have more than a locked up son and others that, quite, have made of the rieducazione an activity: beyond 200 situated ones informed they make head to you private ". The schools propagandano high rates happening, from the 80 to the 96 for hundreds, and shapes of guarantee: until six months after the completion of the course, if a boy falls back in the previous behaviors is riammesso to the school gratis for 60 days. For this Adriana Mitchell, that it cohabits with the diagnosis of post-traumatic stress, inheritance of the riabilitazione center, confesses: "For years I have lived with the terror of being locked up newly". One of the reasons for which this type of structures continuous, in spite of everything, to exist, it is the "mix perverso of shame and pride from which we are conditions to you", comments Szalavitz. "the persons who have been victims of these centers prefer not to tell it, while who is some as soon as exited she is carried to support of the validity, in order not to newly run the risk to be labeled like social dangerous". But how much frequent one is the resource to the colleges? "We say that on a group of four, five persons", answer the essayist, "at least or it has been locked up or she knows directly someone - a relative or a friend - than it has been. Insomma, the former prisoners are not the majority, but sure they form one meaningful minority ". The phenomenon is fed also from the mass media, complains Szalavitz, that they stretch to maintain one neutral position, offering to public the one balanced mix of opinions for and against. "We are victims of one insane propaganda: the result is that the cure is revealed worse of the problem. But the persons on the pretext of "fixing them" cannot themselves be hurt. It means that this Country has lost the own compassion ". Of forehead to the furtiveness of the institutions Americans, three years ago the Isac committee has addressed the United Nations, and has sended one petition of denunciation of the phenomenon to the Commission for the rights of the man. Little later weeks, Markus Schmidt, secretary of Isac, it has made to know that the demand had been rejected. "the Committee against the torture", explained the answer letter, "it cannot consider petitions that evidence violations of the Convention against the tortures, less than the State from which they come it has recognized the competence of the Committee to receive them and to consider them. The United States have not ratified the agreement ". While, some boy in the "rieducazione" leaves the life. The last case laughed them to slid January: Martin Lee Anderson, an Afro-American of 14 years, is not survivor to the first day in a field of Florida, because it has tried to resist to the internamento procedure. The skills on its dead women alternate explanations: from an excess of violence from part of the staff of the field to natural causes. In attended that the justice is pronounced the field it has been closed. That although, the continuous system to prosper. Guilt of nearly the total absence of movements coordinates you of denunciation; probably tied absence a lot, according to Earnshaw, to the stigma of drugged (or presumed such) applied to the adolescents locked up. According to Bosmond, instead, "the greater part of the boys that exits from these schools wants simply to let to the shoulders the experience more soon possible". Very various warning James Wall, that it declares: "the groups that contrast the rights of the parents move critical much sour to the programs. The champions of the adolescents believe that these hooligans must be leave you free to make what they want. And therefore they try sabotare who, effectively, tries to help the boys and their families ". In truth, solos the suicides, the dead men sospette or the denunciations of violence can put in argument the activity of these structures. Therefore it has been, as an example, for the Straight centers, inspires you to the cultures new age and technical particular of control of the thought of Chinese origin. I found you to the half of years ' 80 from Mel and Betty Sembler, constructors of centers trades them and powerful supporters of the Republican party, the Straight have earned an increasing role in anti-drug politics of the United States, and they are multiplies you until 129 structures that close generate a turnover to hundreds the million dollars the year. One after the other, and the last one in 1993, all these truths have been sluices, as a result of denunciations for ill-treatments from part of former students. 
In the 2001 Mel Sembler it has been moved to Rome, in via Veneto, name from George Bush ambassador in Italy. Sembler boasts, like filler the situated one of the Department of State, "having recovered 12 mila young, thanks to its lodevole program against the drug". To compromise the santino there is a parent, Wes Fager, that it has made of the search of the truth on Straight the own crusade: "In 1989, on suggestion of a social worker, I have enrolled my Bill son, to the age quindicenne, a Straight center in Virginia, because I believed that it made drug use". Five later months, Fager - that it has recently given situated life the informative one www.thestraights.com - has found of forehead an other boy: "Bill had continues nervous exhaustions. The therapists agree on the fact that the permanence to the center has aggravated its problems. The Sembler spouses would have to find in prison for what they have made. But as it is possible, if those who would have to indict them seats beside they in the board of directors of the Drug Free America Foundation ". Once come down the sipario on the educational adventure, from ashes of Straight the Sembler has given to life to one foundation, the Dfaf exactly. The objective is to inform the parents Americans of the dangers legacies to the use of narcotics, to leave from the marijuana, dictates gateway drug, "drug-bridge", because - second the experts of the foundation - it can lead to the use of heavier substances, like heroin, cocaine and amphetamines. In the advisory board of the foundation, beside the Sembler, they seat William G. Bankhead, secretary of the department of juvenile Justice of Florida, and Jeb Bush, governor of the same State and brother of the president. The inheritance of Straight has been collection from numerous other groups: Safe, Growing Together, Kids Helping Kids are only some of the names which the parents make reference when problems are found of forehead, real or presumed, with the sons. The drug is not single, to the apex of the worries of the medioborghesi families: "the mass media make us to believe that new behavioural disorders are preparing modern apocalypses", it concludes Earnshaw, "but, for me, the disturbance from attention deficit means solo to be a child. And the difficulty of relazionarsi with the authority of the parents is connaturata to the adolescence ". One what is sure: the tried ones you riprogrammare the teenager they do not work. The example of Bill Fager, today 31enne, demonstrates it: "My son is schizophrenic", declares today, with painful semplicità, Fager senior. (photo ag. Redux/Contrasto) 
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