Book Description

Imagine Orange is the New Black for teenagers, or Beyond Scared Straight without the cameras present. Zack Bonnie, author of Dead, Insane, or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir, is a product of CEDU Educational Services, having attended Rocky Mountain Academy in Northern Idaho. Using rapid-fire dialog, and quick pacing, he describes his experience as a young teenager at a so-called therapeutic boarding school. In this, his first book, Mr. Bonnie illuminates issues within the troubled teen industry, including mind control, brainwashing, and verbal abuse. This book is for all audiences, and specifically for readers interested in the reform and regulation of facilities that confine and abuse teenagers under the guise of tough love. The author hopes with his writing and public advocacy to help the many teens and their families who are still under the sway of inept, unscrupulous, and grasping organizations that dupe parents and evade regulation. Zack Bonnie's mission is to raise awareness and highlight the ongoing rights violations and unethical disciplinary actions used around the world by these programs and schools, "so that no teenager will have to experience what I did."