Over 100 graduates of the program have come forward with horrific stories about the way the girls were treated. According to these reports, the students were starved, forced into tortuous punishments (such as hours of physical work, days of solitary confinement etc.) and brutal "therapeutic" exercises. The students claimed they were forced to act out their physical/emotional abuse with other girls, constantly degraded by the adults and therapeutic advisors, and were made to lie to their parents. The place was described as a "battlefield" between the girls and staff, due to the constant favoritism of the staffers.