
The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping
TV Show • 2024 • Documentary
ReportYears after being sent to a disciplinary school, a woman still haunted by her experiences exposes the corruption and abuse of the troubled teen industry.
This tv show contains 20 potentially triggering events.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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ophiedokie
This is a documentary about children who were forcibly admitted to an abusive boarding school and isolated from the rest of the world. This is usually done at the parent's request.
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after Quinton is introduced there is more footage of him being restrained and he talks about being restricted to eating nothing but bread and milk for two weeks straight in one of the rooms and forced to sit at the very edge of the chair and stare at the wall for hours on end. He's visibly overwhelmed to be back in the same place and telling the story as he tells a story about being punished for slouching during this punishment. He describes fighting back and having a member of the staff draw blood and the nurse refusing to even give him ibuprofen. He talks about his struggles with alcoholism as a result of this trauma over the last 5 years
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Around minute 17 the letter sent by one of the victim's father presents a false narrative where the abuse victim is the true problem, explaining to the facility how to twist the narrative to make the teenager the problem in the narrative and not to believe what she says about her stepmother.
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The whole show is about the abuse of children at the hands of Ivy Ridge
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Is there addiction?
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Many of the children are sent to Ivy Ridge due to their struggles with addiction.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Just before 26 minutes in. They are looking at pictures on a wall of the top people that worked for the program. When they get to Jason Finlinson and scan over pictures of him there is one picture of him kneeling behind a deer and holding its head up by its antlers. I’m not sure if the deer is dead or not…it’s eyes are open but it’s laying on the ground and there looks like there could possibly be a some blood next to its mouth. If you want to skip it just close your eyes when you they say his name until right after the man in the scene says “…they’re dealing with family cause that way secrets get kept.”
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Is rape mentioned?
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Some students mention how they were sexually abused by the staff at Ivy Ridge.
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Is someone restrained?
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Footage is shown of the children being restrained multiple times throughout the show.
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around the 40 minute mark a survivor begins to discuss her experience being groomed by a female staff member
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Child is held by his throat by teacher
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around 28 minutes in they discuss one of the staff members being inappropriate and being "very into strip searches". This staff member is interviewed in the documentary
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The children of this show are essentially “legally kidnapped” by Ivy Ridge boarding school
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12 children were incarcerated after rioting at Ivy Ridge. One of the children, now an adult, mentions that jail was “like a 5 star resort” compared to his time at Ivy Ridge.
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around the 40 minute mark Diana details being assaulted and forced to take medication, and Siss tackling her and sitting down on her chest
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Mention of mum who dies of cancer
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at 50 minute mark they discuss a survivor's experience being suicidal and attempting suicide and being put in solitary while they were detoxing from hard drugs
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Some of the rooms where students were kept are very small
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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The “students” at Ivy ridge all suffer from ptsd due to their experiences there.
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