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By the end of the Civil War, nearly half a million slaves had taken refuge behind Union lines in what became known as "contraband camps". These were crowded, dangerous places, yet some 12 to 15 percent of the Confederacy's slave population took almost unimaginable risks to reach them, and they became the first places Northerners came to know former slaves en masse.

“Troubled Treatment” is an award-winning serial investigative podcast examining one small, therapeutic boarding school in Spring Valley, Arizona, called Spring Ridge Academy. The school is one of many that existed in a network commonly referred to as the “troubled teen industry,” which markets itself as a supportive and caring environment for teenagers to heal from trauma and personal struggles and develop as a young individual. However, former students have spoken out about traumatic and even abusive experiences in the “therapeutic” program that was meant to help them.

An epic journey to uncover a Holocaust inheritance leads relentlessly to discovering a Nakba inheritance: two catastrophes that are very different, but very connected. Can they both be heard and understood? With personal testimony, letters and memories by those who survived and those who did not, this challenging audio series is dramatised and narrated by broadcaster Mike Joseph. Read more at https://mikejoseph.wales/keys and hear all episodes at https://balfourproject.org/keys or wherever you get your podcasts.