Introducing Camp Hell: Anneewakee

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04/12/21 • 3 min

The Anneewakee Treatment Center for Emotionally Disturbed Youth operated in Douglasville, Georgia for over 25 years. Purportedly, it was a place that parents could send their troubled kids for help. But in reality, it was a breeding ground for abuse. This is the story of Anneewakee, as never told before.

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In the introduction to Camp Hell: Anneewakee, we give a summary of what Anneewakee was supposed to be and what it became. We hear from some of the very first patients of Anneewakee as well as other survivors and victims of abuse.

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Camp Hell: Anneewakee - Introducing Camp Hell: Anneewakee

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In the town of Douglasville lies what was once the largest medical facility in Georgia. It is here where a largely unknown story began. Remember the name an Awake. It was mostly obscured a few months ago, but in the months ahead it may come to represent everything that's right and wrong with juvenile justice and rehabilitation, not just here in Duglas County, but throughout all of Georgia. Louis Petter began the Inn, a weekie center for emotional