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Sam Myers

Sam Myers

The Daily Yonder, a nonprofit newsroom that provides news, commentary and analysis about and for rural America is published by the nonprofit Center for Rural Strategies. Sam Myers is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in Politico, The New York Times and Sierra Nevada Ally, among others.

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Survivors of wilderness therapy camps describe trauma, efforts to end abuses

By: - August 7, 2023

In 2007, 17-year-old Sarah Stusek woke up at 4 a.m. The lights were mysteriously turned on. Her phone was gone. She looked up to see a man and a woman hovering over her on either side of the bed. They told her to get dressed and that they were taking her somewhere. They didn’t explain […]