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therapeutic facility
noun as in health spa
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Nathan Covarrubias, a 14-year-old autistic boy, went missing from a residential therapeutic facility near Walnut on May 29, only to be found alive over a week later beside a creek on Vaughn’s family farm.
“In a therapeutic facility, that’s not a role that you put people who have been placed in the facility in,” Greene said.
But surely in that case, in an ideal world—after a trial in court—he would have been sent to a prison, or, if you have more enlightened ideas about both crime and punishment, to a therapeutic facility that helps people not to make victims of their fellow-humans.
Monica, a 22-year-old Baltimore native who for privacy reasons spoke only on the condition that her full name not be used, says she had a $200-a-day heroin addiction and was injecting the drug every three hours to stave off crippling withdrawal symptoms when she overdosed — in the lobby of a therapeutic facility she was preparing to enter.
The remainder, approximately $45 million, is designated to replace the 210-bed detention facility with a therapeutic facility of no more than 112 beds.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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