Program seeks to turn around unruly kids
Tim McMahon was formerly the director at Appalachian Wilderness Camp in 2005 when Travis Parker, 13, died at the state-run camp for troubled boys near Cleveland. He stresses that Eckerd isn't a boot camp. Eckerd does not take court-appointed cases, a distinction that organizers say separates them from the more publicized state-run "boot camps" that help teens avoid prison. Frank Niemeir / AJC
