ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an author reflecting on when their parents had them legally kidnapped by teen transporters who left them at a 16-month program in a therapeutic boarding school. Recently, a new social movement ushered forth a self-identified group of troubled teen industry (TTI) survivors. This developing interdisciplinary work illuminates how the TTI is a private extension of the carceral logics driving mass incarceration. Despite the U.S. legacy of sending children away for punishment, research is limited on TTI programs, and rare on teen transporting. This reflection indicates the TTI is not a model to advance youth justice, nor is transporting ethical.
