The state-mandated closure is the first on record for Utah’s “troubled teen industry”
A promised "youth bill of rights" is absent from federal legislation introduced this spring.
“On the internet, it looks like a great place," said an attorney for Taylor's family.
Children run away from out-of-home placements because they are in out-of-home placements. Institutionalization is inherently harmful, inherently traumatic and almost never necessary....