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...relatively poor record of success, tough-love programs for juvenile offenders are now getting another kick in the teeth. A coalition of savvy Florida college students, civil rights activists and politicians are protesting the death earlier this year of a 14-year-old boy in a rural North Florida boot camp, alleging not just abuse but a cover-up that is proving a major embarassment for Florida Governor Jeb Bush in his last year in office. Thursday evening, Bush's Department of Law Enforcement Secretary, Guy Tunnell, who established the boot camp during his tenure as Bay County Sheriff, abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boot Camps Take Another Hit | 4/21/2006 | See Source »

...Sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, forced standing, denial of bathroom breaks, denial of clothing and emotional manipulation? That sounds like something I experienced recently: U.S. military boot camp. Joshua Matthew Fisher Senior Airman, U.S.A.F. Fort Edward, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...Hark then puts the family through a radical three-week boot camp that makes for high drama. (Because really, what better motivation to eat well than watching a kid throw up rice and bok choy?) The beauty of Honey is that it wraps its voyeuristic fatsploitation in sanctimony. Dr. Hark is a classic media moralist in the tradition of Judge Judy and Dr. Laura--curt and no nonsense. (Could Dickens have come up with a better name for a TV scold than Dr. Hark?) After a few minutes of her lecturing--"They are on a downward spiral toward disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Blinking Blue Schoolmarm | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...doesn't Pataki just boot Silverstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind the Ground Zero Stalemate | 3/30/2006 | See Source »

Sleep deprivation, exposure to cold, forced standing, denial of bathroom breaks, denial of clothing and emotional manipulation? That sounds like something I experienced recently: U.S. military boot camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 3, 2006 | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

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