Those kids probably needed help but appropriate help not kidnapping and mind control brainwashing that can mess them up for life. While some may attain to desired goals of their parents it's also apparent that many if not most do not come through these experiences without problems. These camps aren't new or are the techniques of mind control, apparently they tend to change the names after one gets in trouble with the law and a bad reputation because parents and the social infrastructure so often fail kids that there is money to be made.
http://www.ficausa.com/Deaths.html
http://www.thestraights.com/index.htm
As for what would happen to those kids who don't get such "help"
well they may unlike those on the linked list, I counted about 92 dead from their "treatment" not counting those who die afterwards from suicide, live to find something appropriate. If you read through the links you might see that the sage walk camp is on watch lists and not considered harmless by some who watch such things. There may very well be good programs out there, family counseling, anger management and other sorts of counseling may be more appropriate than any isolation camp that people aren't free to walk away from easily.



~Down