So the truth is slowly being revealed...

I am a former 'student' at Midwest Academy from September
 21st, 2012 to August 18, 2013. If I had a choice between jail and
 Midwest Academy for 11 months, I would have now chosen jail. On August
 21st, 2012, I woke up to two random men (who I later learned were Mr
 James Paulus and Mr Greg Warosh) standing in my room. I was in shock.
 Then the big one (Mr James) said, "If you come calmly we won't cuff
 you." 3 hours later, I arrived at the place that would become my own
 personal hellhole for the next 11 months. The adults in Midwest
 Academy strive to maintain some sort of sick control over its students
 by a system of brainwashing and scare techniques based on a system of
 points.

For the longest time, you're still sure you have some rights and
 freedoms. But I was soooooo wrong. To move anywhere in the program,
 you had to completely submit to the staff members and the rules of
 this facility. As a person, I always stood up for myself. But
 apparently you're not allowed to be a person in Midwest Academy,
 you're not allowed to be yourself. If you do, you just lose those
 points. The staff members don't need to have a clean record or a clean
 criminal history, they just need put in an application. Mr Mike
 Washington, a staff member with a criminal past was fired for failing
 a drug test, but then was hired again a few months later as if nothing
 happened. This staff member used his better-than attitude that
 everyone somehow thought was cool to command respect and total
 submission to whatever he said. but they kept him there because this
 was the way life is supposed to be: pressured. really? because i dont
 think real life entails overdosing and dying and being revived because
 you were so traumatized by the experience you had like i did. or being
 arrested like my friend, or relapsing like a few more friends that
 left.

A month or two before I left, Division of Human Services came to
 investigate the facility and interviewed a few 'students.' When that
 happened, the director of the facility (Mr Ben Trane) made sure to
 take the interviewed kids out to lunch, give them points to move up in
 the program, and then gave one of the kids a cell phone type device,
 all as a bribe to say the right thing to the Human Services Officers.
 Of course when I asked one of those kids, 'nothing happened.' Which
 everyone knew was untrue. recently, the administration of the facility
 started representing us to our families, basically telling us how we
 were doing in the program week by week. Doesn't it sound just a little
 sketchy that the people who get paid the most and run the facility now
 represent us?

The ultimate worst part of Midwest Academy was Out of School Suspension
 (OSS.) i saw some messed up stuff in there. the staff members watch
 kids cut themselves in a 6ftx4ft box and do absolutely nothing about
 it. people dont get a chance to talk to their parents, but their
 parents are told a disproportionate story about what their child is
 doing and how they got in there. kids come out of the stone isolated
 box with blood all over their shirt, but apparently its 'all their
 fault, their choice to cut themselves.' and we shouldn't feel sorry
 for them whatsoever. i know kids that were in there for 25+ days, and
 were losing 20-30 pounds on the meals they were fed. one kid with mild
 tourettes was never ever given proper treatment and simply told
 "you're just going to sit here for four more years." another 12-year-
old child was never helped with any of his problems, and is picked on
 constantly by staff and students, being told "you'll never survive
 this place, you're going to be here till you're 18." this place is
 like high school, but taken to the extreme. the higher levels must
 pick on the levels below them to move forward. Midwest Academy truly
 brainwashes you and your parents, but thankfully by holding on to my
 base beliefs, i was able to make it out alright. Don't be afraid to
 share your abuse story from Midwest Academy or any other place!!