Inside the abusive troubled-teen industry that Paris Hilton exposed – New York Post
A generation of former students who say they suffered abuse, humiliation and other horrors at the for-profit, remote schools that make up the “troubled teen” industry are getting their revenge thanks to Paris Hilton.
The socialite — whose new YouTube documentary, “This is Paris,” reveals her dark past — was sent in 1995 to one such place, the CEDU school in California.
Hilton, now 39, fled by reportedly calling her grandfather Conrad Hilton to come get her. She escaped another school by jumping a flight of stairs. In 1996, she was sent to a lockdown facility, Provo Canyon, in Utah, until she was 18. There, Hilton alleges, she was beaten by staffers, prescribed unknown pills and forced into solitary confinement for almost 20 hours.
At least one former counselor admits to loat...
