A residential treatment school for girls in the North Carolina mountains has closed after a state investigation and the recent deaths of two of its students who took their own lives
The owner of Asheville Academy had a nature-based residential therapy program for boys closed by North Carolina officials last year. The license for Trails Carolina in Transylvania County was revoked after a 12-year-old boy was found dead in a cabin in February 2024, the day after he arrived.
The wilderness based camps are some of the worst of these facilities. A lot of times they force them to camp in horrible weather conditions with little to no supplies. A number of kids have died at these camps
The wilderness based camps are some of the worst of these facilities. A lot of times they force them to camp in horrible weather conditions with little to no supplies. A number of kids have died at these camps