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2: What they saved

Katey Handel, 31, at her home in Gray, La., on Feb. 16, 2022. Katey was sent to a "troubled teens" center in Utah when she was 17 and pregnant.
Camille Lenain
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Special to The Tribune
Katey Handel, 31, at her home in Gray, La., on Feb. 16, 2022. Katey was sent to a "troubled teens" center in Utah when she was 17 and pregnant.

With the state off its back, Integrity House is free to grow. We learn what it was like to live there day after day — what the people who worked there saw, and what the state did when one of them blew the whistle.

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