Seven teenagers have died in Utah teen treatment programs since 2021, when legislators enacted stricter regulations and more oversight of the troubled teen industry. One state lawmaker and celebrity Paris Hilton say this means more change is needed.
  • @cheese_greater
    15•19 hours ago

    I really hope these people can be shown that voting R will always lead to this. They shouldn’t need personal loss to understand safety and children’s laws are written in blood and that no place is going to make their child respect and behave better unless its literally just fear of being sent back to a terrible place and being retraumatized all over again.

    Hell, even reading Holes at the time was traumatic enough