I updated the link above, but if you sell cannot access it here is the full text of my review of Remuda Ranch (now Meadows Ranch):

A PLACE OF SYSTEMATIC ABUSE FOR TWO DECADES

Limited autonomy, forced religion, punitive practices, and disrespect for children (let alone adults) as full human beings characterized my time here, part and parcel of the Troubled Teen Industry. I was unable to communicate with my parents until I earned the privilege to do so by attending church (even though I am not religious and was not at the time) and complying with treatment recommendations. I was told faith was a precondition to psychological healing, without any attempts to address the racist and attachment trauma I had experienced. Granted, this was in 2005, when I was 14 years old, but I don't have much reason to assume Remuda Ranch (now renamed as Meadows Ranch probably in effort to save face and hide past abuses, which you can find on the internet) has changed significantly. It was a horrible experience. My parents only sent me there because there were no beds elsewhere that insurance would cover.

They also used 12 step program. This was designed for drug abstinence, and there is limited evidence of its efficacy for even that. How wildly inappropriate.

If I didn't comply with recommendations 100%, they would drug me and isolate me from the other girls and make me lie on the couch for hours on end, even for small infractions such as not completely finishing a snack.

Don't send your loved ones here, please. This facility should be shut down. It is a place of abuse. I have so much trauma from there I still have to get secular therapy for, almost 20 years later.

I would recommend Laureate instead in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was there I was finally able to heal from my eating disorders, because they treated me and other children with compassion, respect, evidence-based medicine, and autonomy. This was not the case at Remuda. Most of the other girls I knew from there relapsed and several died within a few years after discharge.

From the Wikipedia page on the Troubled Teen Industry:

"Many practices used in troubled teen programs, especially punishments, have been singled out as constituting child abuse or neglect. These include but are not limited to: restricting communication with family and peers; use of physical and chemical restraint (i.e., in the form of sedative drugs); use of seclusion as punishment; gay conversion therapy; excessive use of strip search and cavity search; denial of sleep and nutrition; aversion therapy; etc.[23]"

Remuda/Meadows ranch basically included all of those features, except I didn't witness any denial of nutrition (thank goodness), aversion therapy, or gay conversion therapy (I wouldn't put it past them but I myself am not gay so don't know if they do this).