A TROUBLED INDUSTRY FOR TROUBLED TEENS

Each year, thousands of parents pay to have their children taken to treatment programs, often by force. While formats vary — from survival courses to ranches to boarding schools — they all promise the same thing: to scare wayward kids straight with “tough love.” But for years, students who’ve come through those programs have alleged that they endured abuse. Here, five schools in the billion-dollar industry whose practices have faced scrutiny.

PARIS ON A MISSION Paris Hilton joins demonstrators near the Provo Canyon School to protest alleged abuses at the teen-care facility.