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Ethan Allen School
BASICS: Ethan Allen School, Wales, WI. 230 boys were there at time of visit. Average age is between 13-18. They can stay at Ethan School until they are 23. It now costs $268 a day, per kid, to house and service them.
PICTURED: S.T, age 15, is named after a famous, living basketball player. He is from Milwaukee and has been at Ethan Allen for two years. I asked if he could have the shackles removed while we speak in a controlled room: the answer was no. He has been housed in Martin, a higher security portion of the facility, for about a week, after he refused to return to his cell. He yearns to go back to JUNO (a place for the younger, smaller, more fragile kids -- the ones more subject to victimization), where he was originally housed. When he was at Juno, he had a five minute pass to go see the doctor. However, he stopped to break into a canteen on his way back and ended up eating enough candy bars to make himself sick enough to vomit. As a result, he was sent to Valis, but didn’t do well there because he was “being played by one of the staff.” His mother is a CAN and works in a nursing home. His father is unemployed, and simply does “stuff around the house" and takes care of his little brother, age 10, and his little brother sister, age 7.
Ethan Allen School
BASICS: Ethan Allen School, Wales, WI. 230 boys were there at time of visit. Average age is between 13-18. They can stay at Ethan School until they are 23. It now costs $268 a day, per kid, to house and service them.
PICTURED: S.T, age 15, is named after a famous, living basketball player. He is from Milwaukee and has been at Ethan Allen for two years. I asked if he could have the shackles removed while we speak in a controlled room: the answer was no. He has been housed in Martin, a higher security portion of the facility, for about a week, after he refused to return to his cell. He yearns to go back to JUNO (a place for the younger, smaller, more fragile kids -- the ones more subject to victimization), where he was originally housed. When he was at Juno, he had a five minute pass to go see the doctor. However, he stopped to break into a canteen on his way back and ended up eating enough candy bars to make himself sick enough to vomit. As a result, he was sent to Valis, but didn’t do well there because he was “being played by one of the staff.” His mother is a CAN and works in a nursing home. His father is unemployed, and simply does “stuff around the house" and takes care of his little brother, age 10, and his little brother sister, age 7.