Do They Need "Basic Training" in Humanity or a "Dishonorable Discharge" Themselves?
             Imagine this scenario: Little Timmy, who isn't so little anymore because he is six feet tall and sixteen years old, still hasn't outgrown his Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Not only that, but he is now abusing and trafficking substances that are much more dangerous and serious than marijuana or alcohol. This morning you received two phone calls; one was from Dr. Allison Keeney, the principal, and the other from Mr. Ryan Bailey, the counselor at the school Timmy attends. The message you heard from Dr. Keeney is that your son is expelled and perhaps facing local police charges for selling illegal drugs on school property and beating up another boy because he couldn't pay the money he owed Timmy. When Mr. Bailey was talking to you, he gave you a list of possibilities for "bettering" Timmy and potentially "simmering down" the repercussions of this ordeal. You listen to the list, mentally checking off each one as a "possibility", "out of the question", or "I will check into it". Then he mentions juvenile boot camps. He even gives you a list of what he calls the "most productive and beneficial". You think to yourself that it sounds like a pretty good solution. You agree to check into them during your lunch hour and make a few calls. But you don't. You get on-line and fill out an application to a camp in Arizona. Then you inform Timmy where he is going but you don't say why; he should know why. He looks at you in fear at that moment, and two weeks later he still is as he boards the plane. All right, you can stop visualizing now. In all honesty, that doesn't sound too unreasonable does it? WRONG!
             It has been declared by boot camp advocates like Mike Slusher, vice president of operations at the Koch Institute, that they...