The Troubled Teen and Straight Scared Straight

In 1971 the federal government gave a grant to a group called the seed, which applied synon on tactics to troubled teens. In 1974 Congress opened an investigation into the seed and found it had used methods similar to highly refined brainwashing techniques employed by the North Koreans. Fearful of bad PR supporters of the seeds fun off a copycat group called straight ink. The program was so inundated with millions in legal judgments that it had to close in 1993.