Hell Camp

 This film is a good example of when the American justice system fails. As an idea to market a harsh wilderness expedition as a way to tame troubled youth. He has no experience with counseling, is not a psychologist, nor is he an expert in desert survival. But he goes on television and his message resonates so much that his business is wildly successful. Parents would pay up to $10,000 to have their child kidnapped and sent to this camp. It was so successful that he could not properly train his employees, and one of the kids sent to the camp died. Obviously, he and his company were then charged, but after a two-year tial he was acquitted of all charges and her death was ruled accidental. Any reasonable person at this point would say to themselves I tried this idea, I failed, let me do something else with my life. He did not, he tried this strategy again in two different locations, and they both ended up in disaster. In the last case, the victims of this Camp needed to be rescued by staff members from the American embassy. The most idiotic thing about this entire situation is his family's insistence that this man did nothing wrong because he wasn't there when the worst abuses took place. This is mind-boggling. If I created a company and it ended up devolving into a slave labor camp, nothing about that and in fact benefited from the slave labor camp I think I bear some kind of responsibility. It is incredible to me that this man escaped any form of criminal justice.

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