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State Training School in Plankinton

Unknown Plankinton, South Dakota

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Address: Plankinton, SD
Type: Boot Camp
Serves: Female

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State Training School in Plankinton is a boot camp in Plankinton, South Dakota.

News coverage

Mother Jones Nov 1, 2000 Expose

An Investigation into Military-Style Juvenile Boot Camps and the Death of Gina Score

Essential reporting
Gina Score, 14, collapsed on a run at a South Dakota state boot camp and died of heatstroke while staff took her collapse for defiance. Bruce Selcraig's account of the camp and the system around it.

Gina Score, a 14-year-old placed in state custody at a military-style juvenile boot camp in South Dakota, suffered a fatal heatstroke after collapsing during a mandatory run while staff delayed seeking medical attention, mistaking her medical emergency for non-compliance. The incident prompted wider scrutiny of systemic abuses within state-run military-style juvenile programs, including physical restraints, isolation, and punitive disciplinary methods.

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Added 2026-10-07 by the news scan from: Mother Jones, "Camp Fear", 2000-11-01 source