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Ellis Jones

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2759 total appearances

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Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

There's one that's like a survival school.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

That was... So it started... I'll give you a brief history.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

There was a...

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

a drug program in Malibu in the sixties called Synanon.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Okay.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And they took, um, some, a little bit of stuff from like Chinese internment camps and then seriously, and literally logs, right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

He's in tournament camp and then rehab and then like, and then a, right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

But it's just like, it's this like shaming the addict kind of thing.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And then using the other addicts in there as like enforcers of the Synanon program, shave their head, take their identity away.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Colt, right.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Yeah.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Therapy Colt.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And then there was another offshoot of that called The Seed, which was here in Florida.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

That was in the 70s, so like 60s, 70s.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And then in the 80s, this Mormon guy from Utah saw the opportunity, like a business opportunity to do it.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And he started those survival camps where they take kids out in the desert of Utah, and that's just where you live.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

You've got to just do your camping for who knows how long.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

He gets some heat in the 80s and 90s for doing that, all the abuse and everything.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

And he realizes that he can go to different countries and they have much more laxed child abuse laws.

Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
I Escaped a Jamaican Prison Camp | Locked Up Abroad

Right.