{"id":17357,"date":"2020-11-21T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=1b13e3b194031bcf8e1a4cdf33ba93d1"},"modified":"2020-11-21T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T05:00:00","slug":"the-bad-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/11\/21\/the-bad-place\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bad Place"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The vacant building that once housed the Riverside Academy in Wichita, Kansas, was covered in haunting graffiti: \u201cBurn this place.\u201d \u201cYouth were abused here \u2026 systematically.\u201d \u201cThis is a bad place.\u201d The facility, run by the for-profit company Sequel Youth & Family Services, promised to help kids with behavioral problems. But state officials had cited the facility dozens of times for problems including excessive force by staff, poor supervision and neglect.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n


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The vacant building that once housed the Riverside Academy in Wichita, Kansas, was covered in haunting graffiti: \u201cBurn this place.\u201d \u201cYouth were abused here \u2026 systematically.\u201d \u201cThis is a bad place.\u201d The facility, run by the for-profit company S…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3510,3511,3610,923,3513,3618,3512,1244,3619,3553,3515,3611,3612,889,526,296,3620,3519,3518,3520,3613,3614,3615,3616,3521,3617,3621],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1233924,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17357\/revisions\/1233924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}