like, the Scientology and Goldman Sachs stuff is not even the weirdest or most disturbing stuff in this piece:<\/p>\n
\u2026I wanted to find out more about this strange book that has been forced on\u00a0a million people in the prison system,\u00a0this book that uses terms and ideas from Scientology and tells\u00a0people that their immoral personalities are responsible for their substance use, their incarceration and their unhappiness.<\/p>\n
But for an organization\u00a0that purports to seek to help as many people as possible,\u00a0Correctional Counseling keeps its materials mighty close to its chest.<\/p>\n
When I tried to order some books from their website, I was informed that only people who have undergone the patented MRT training can even order the book. Basic trainings cost<\/a> around $600 to attend.<\/p>\n
Correctional Counseling advertises heavily to drug courts<\/a>. And if the drug courts don\u2019t want to pay for the manuals and\u00a0training fees? Correctional Counseling reassures<\/a> them in one of the advertisements linked to in its newsletter: \u201cMany drug courts require clients to bear the costs of workbooks and groups.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
more<\/a>\u2013this piece is yelling to the choir (OH NO A KOCH BROTHER) but one thing my readers might be esp interested in is how easily (American) Christianity-without-Christ becomes moralistic<\/a>, oppressive authoritarianism.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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