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“When I first moved to St. George in the summer of 2019, the kind folks who toured me around town often included a stop at the gates of Red Rock Canyon School which, back then, was more often referred to as the “school that had a riot” only five weeks earlier. That introduction left quite an impression. And for next year and half, I grew fascinated in this industry, which seemed shrouded in whispers of both big profits and widespread mistreatment, and how it came to grow larger in Utah than anywhere else. This fall, Paris Hilton stepped forward with her own stories of abuse in a Utah facility and inspired countless others to do the same. From building trust with former residents to requesting and reviewing hundreds of pages of agency records, the reporting in this piece took months to assemble. I hop