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Letter write day every 26th of the month

9/19/2010

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We will send a plea to all students in every high school in the world to send a letter of comfort to those who are no longer among us.

We all know a student who has been sent to a boarding school, wilderness program, boot camp or abroad because the family finds the present youth culture too challengling.

They suffer isolated from their peers and we feel that is time to tell them or their captors that they are not forgotten.

May 26, 1961 the article The Forgotten Prisoners launced the campaign "Appeal for Amnesty 1961" and defined the term "Prisoner of Conscience".

We believe that it is time to honor this day every month by writing a letter to someone who used to be our classmate.

It doesn't matter if our beloved friend will be able to read the letter. It will often not be the case. A massive part of the residential solutions offered to minors today isolate their clients from the rest of the world.

49 years have gone and the world has still minors who have been sent away from their local communities for their belief, lifestyle, religion or sexual orientation. Will it ever change?

It will not change unless we all do our part. What would it take to write a simple letter every month?

Somewhere out there a person you have known suffer!

You can do your part:

- Get your pencil. 
- Buy or draw a postcard
- Write your message of comfort
- Mail the letter

Template if you are totally lost f

<student name>
prisoner of conscience
<schools address>
<schools town and zip>
<possible country>

Dear <students name>

I just want you to know that you among the students of <your high schools name> are not forgotten. We think about your awful destiny and your daily torment and pray for your early release.

Regards
<your name>

That was not that hard.

References:
Prisoner of Conscience (Wikipedia)
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Morgan - a detainee at a boarding school

9/12/2010

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Our search engines found this piece written by a then soon-to-be prisoner of conscience:
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I have not yet been placed in a "character building school/wilderness program/boot camp/gay re-education camp/or a therapeutic boarding school" but as of today I am packing to be placed in the later. Basically, Monday I will be expected to walk into a therapeutic/troubled teen boarding school titled "Academy at Sisters" - which is in Bend, Oregon. 

So far I have heard nothing but bad things of this school. Facebook groups of survivors have said that it's "taken their hopes and dreams, and replaced them with skills only to be used by housewives," and have claimed that, "it took away our basic rights, and forced us to learn nothing but compliance." My parents think it is a good idea to send me here, however, I disagree to the highest extent. I have done nothing wrong.

Sure, In my past I've made mistakes, but whom hasn't? I have never done drugs, stolen, lied to the extent that it has caused me/others harm.. None of the things that the AAS advertises it shall help with. Why am I posting a testimony? Because I want this to be here for someone to edit while I'm in the program. Because I want someone to see that I had a level head about me before I left. I still have hopes, dreams, and ambitions, and I want that documented before it's gone.


I don't want to be added to the list of survivors. I don't want to have to try and survive it at all.
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Later research did show that she lost her freedom around September 1, 2010. She is detained in La-pine, Oregon at the "Academy at Sisters" so-called boarding school. Here she is isolated from her former peers at the Glencoe High School in Hillsboro and that part of her extended family which would have offered her to live at their home.


Little is known about the type of cancer which led to the early death of her mother according to her blog, but one thing is certain. She began to doubt God. Those of us who have lived longer has experienced such periods of our life also. There will be time of hardship where we question our belief. But we also know that the desicion to start to believe again was made in loneliness undisturbed by others.


Nobody forced us to go to a certain religious boarding school so we could "find" God again. Nobody enforced their belief upon us. But this is the reality Morgan face. Academy at Sisters is a religious program. While they state that they accept people believing otherwise, they don't mention what they do with people who don't believe.


We know that this boarding school has a show-room campus which parents can tour. They also have the La-pine campus where the teenage girls are forced to work in the woods during breaks in the enforced therapy and missionary.


Pray for Morgan. Help her support group on Facebook out.

Regards
Hugh Elborn


Update: She is free for now, but like many teenagers she must now live very carefully because her parent can hire a youth transport firm to take her away in handcuffs and legirons 3 a.m. from her own bed. whenever they like, so she cannot prepare for help and support outside another time.
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