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‘Treatment' Facility Held Mentally Disabled Teen In Solitary For 25 Days

Written By Unknown on Thursday, May 9, 2013 | 2:22 PM

May 9, 2013
Fourteen-year-old Kiondre Davison had a habit of acting up in school and running away from home. Social services officials stepped in to help. They sent him to El Pueblo Boys and Girls Ranch, a teen treatment center that touts its "environment of safety and loving care." Continue reading...
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