Summary
The state of Utah has taken away the license of Provo Canyon School, a boarding school where Paris Hilton says she was abused as a teenager. The school failed to meet health and safety rules, including problems with staff care, neglect, and background checks, and must close by early August.Key Facts
- Utah revoked the license of Provo Canyon School in Springville for many health and safety violations.
- The school has 15 days to ask for a hearing before the Utah health department.
- Violations include not enough staff, unnecessary physical restraint, neglect, and poor employee screening.
- The state ordered the school to stop all services by August 6.
- Paris Hilton says she was abused at the school in the late 1990s, including being locked in solitary without clothes and given unknown pills.
- Hilton has spoken to lawmakers to help pass laws protecting teens in Utah and other states.
- The school is now under new ownership and has not commented on past issues.
- Utah is a major center for private residential programs for troubled teens, often called the “troubled teen industry.”
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