FORCED EXERCISE

Jordan Riak studied and reported on the issue of forced exercise in the late '80's and early '90'. He and Isabelle Zehnder are revisiting this issue. If you have ever been a victim of forced exercise and would like to share your story with us, please e-mail us at info@caica.org or riak@nospank.net. If you know someone who has been harmed as a result of forced exercise, or who has died, we would welcome your comments as well.

May 3, 2005	Boot Camps: OLR Research Report: Juvenile Delinquencies, prisons and prisoners, recidivism, sentencing - talks about boot camps, their failures, and addresses forced exercise.
2005	Why exercise punishment should be avoided, by Jeff Lula
May 27, 2001	The last resort -- As desperate parents try boot camp, critics claim that alternative is laced with problems. This article addresses boot camp traits: physical exercise, labor and Spartan living in remote locations, where running away is difficult.
Nov/Dec 2000	Camp Fear: News: Gina Score was the latest teenager to die at a juvenile boot camp. Why do so many states still insist that humiliation and abuse will straighten out troubled kids? Gina was forced to exercise beyond her abilities and died as a result. An unbelievably sad, yet all too familiar, story of a child who dies at the hands of those who were supposed to be there to help her.
March 2, 1998	The death of 16-year-old Nicholaus Contreraz, who died of cardiac arrest at the Arizona Boys Ranch near Oracle on March 2, 1998, after instructors continued to harass him and force him to exercise even though he told them he was sick.
1994	Boot Camps are a Bad Alternative: Boot Camps for Juveniles are a Failure
September 26,1994	Are teen boot camps the answer? - punishment of juvenile offenders
March 18, 1992	A letter to the editor about a violent coach, forced exercise and near death, News & Observer, Raleigh, NC, March 18, 1992
December 1, 1989	Attorney General Van De Kamp's response of 12/1/89 to Jordan Riak
November 1, 1989	Jordan Riak's letter of 11/1/89 to Attorney General Van De Kamp requesting clarification of the corporal punishment ban with regard to exercise as punishment
November 13, 1989	Attorney General Van De Kamp's response of 11/13/89 to Jordan Riak
November 22, 1989	Jordan Riak's response of 11/22/89 to Attorney General Van De Kamp
October 1989	Open Letter to California Educators, about the Use of Forced Exercise as Punishment By Jordan Riak
October 1989	The Coach and the Fat Kid, Editorial from the Canyon News, Texas, 1977
September 11, 1989	A letter about exercise as punishment from Jean L. Perry, Ph.D., Chair, Department of Physical Education, San Francisco State University to Bill Honig, Superintendent, California State Department of Education.
September 7, 1989	Memo of September 7, 1989 from Mary Weaver to Milton Wilson, both Education Department employees, regarding the challenge of revising the "Corporal Punishment Advisory" so that it no longer forbids exercise as punishment but warns against it.
August 10, 1989	A letter about exercise as punishment from Kathryn Scott, President of the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD) to Bill Honig, Superindentent, California State Department of Education.
August 4, 1989	A letter about exercise as punishment from Bonnie Mohnsen, Ph.D., Coordinator, Physical Education/Health Education-Nutrition, Montebello Unified School District, Intructional Services Division, Montebello, Ca. to Bill Honig, Superintendent, California State Department of Education
July 13, 1989	State, coaches can offer no alternative to pain, sweat By John Bogert, South Bay Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA, July 13, 1989
April 30, 1989	Boot Camps are a Bad Alternative: Criminologists say boot camps put too much emphasis on military training and physical exercise rather than helping inmates improve their low educational-and job skills and kick drug and alcohol habits -- things experts say are critical for reducing criminal activity. Brutality."It can lead to training instructors going into excess,"Flower said. Instructors have a hard time taming the street kids, he said, and respond, as in the military, by demanding more and more physical exercise.
March 1989	Violent coaching in Seymour, Texas Correspondence received by PTAVE in March 1989 from two parents describing the mistreatment of their sons.
	A letter about exercise as punishment from Linda Carpenter, Ph.D., J.D., Professor, Department of Physical Education, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York to Bill Honig, Superintendent, California State Department of Education.
	Position Statement on the Use of Physical Activity as Punishment by the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (CAHPERD)