BONUS EPISODE: The Horror of Reform Schools -- Todd Nilssen's "The Last Stop" Documentary

The Social Exchange

Todd is a documentary film maker and his most recent film, "The Last Stop" is today's conversation topic.

The Last Stop is a film about the Élan School, which was a controversial school / treatment facility for so-called juvenile delinquents which existed in the deep woods of Maine.

That’s ExisTED, past-tense, because the Élan school was closed down in 2011 due to allegations of abuse which dated back to its opening in 1970.

(This is a rebroadcast from an episode I recorded in 2019)