I’m not sure how appropriate anecdotal information is in the GD forum.
However, I was sent off to a strict British boarding school when I was 13.
Obviously, the school in no way shape or form resembled the boot camp juvenile facility in the OP but it existed, in part, like the boot camps, partly as a way for parents turn over their problem children to another authority.
I refer to my experience for one simple reason-yes, I was a rebellious little snot, yes, my parents felt incapable of coping with my lying and my drug use and, yes, they needed a way to gain control of the situation.
What were not examined at the time were my reasons for that behavior.
That would have been far too painful for them because it would have forced them to confront the fact that they had failed me.
Period.
It was much easier to ship me off to be some one else’s problem.