Footage has emerged of South Carolina sheriff’s deputies violently shoving children and screaming in their faces as part of a prison-inspired disciplinary program for troubled youth.

The video, which was shot by the Charlotte Observer, shows children and teenagers being disciplined by officers from the Chester County Sheriff’s Office.

The program, called Project STORM, is aimed at high-risk youth and involves parents sending their children to prison for a weekend to teach them a lesson.

While the program has been running for several years, some psychologists have slammed the recent footage saying the treatment the youth are subjected to is child abuse.

The video shows children and teenagers being disciplined by officers from the Chester County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina as part of a prison-inspired disciplinary program

The children who participate in the program are handcuffed and treated like real criminals in an attempt to help curb unruly behavior.

The recent video, parts of which were filmed in June last year and January, shows officers handcuffing children as young as eight.

They are also filmed shoving and grabbing the children, screaming in their faces and forcing them to do prison yard exercises for long periods of time.

Some boys were filmed sobbing and a 12-year-old even collapsed while carrying a traffic cone over his head during an exercise.

A deputy could be heard screaming: ‘The same pain you are feeling is the same pain you are putting your parents through.’

Child psychologist Kenneth Dodge said: ‘It is physical abuse. This tactic would be called torture if the prisoner were a member of the Taliban’ .

Chester County Sheriff Alex Underwood denied that the treatment of the children is abuse…..More Here