A decade ago 14 year old Gina Score died after going through a 'boot-camp style' program at the juvenile detention facility in Plankinton. And now another juvenile who was at the facility at the time is speaking out about the conditions that eventually lead to the school being shut down.

14 year old Gina Score had only been at the State Training School in Plankinton five days before she died during a forced 'boot-camp style' run on July 21st, 1999. And Nate Anderson, who was at the Plankinton facility from 1996 to 1997, says while the death was shocking it didn't surprise him.

"There was a lot of under the table abuse going on that was under the radar that people didn't notice," former State Training School inmate Nate Anderson said.

Nate Anderson spent ten months at the State Training School in Plankinton. He left about a year and a half before Gina Score died there.

"It was very much like boot camp. The running was unbelievable. They put people through all sorts of rigorous activities right off the bat, they didn't give us any warm up time," Anderson said.

12 years after getting out, Anderson still has his own horror stories to tell about Plankinton. Anderson is now a 30 year old electrician, but when he was at the training school he remembers his supervisors threatening to put his genitals in a vice-grip. One night Anderson says he dared his supervisor to do it after an argument in his bunkhouse.

"You gonna threaten me with it here you go. And he clamped them on and he pinched them on to where they clamped and I was in complete shock I couldn't believe he did it," Anderson said.

Anderson says officials in Plankinton told him to keep quiet about that incident.

"It was unfortunate that someone had to die in order for someone to actually figure out what was going on there. They put a choke clause on my ordeal because they didn't want it to get out," Anderson said.

But after Gina Score's death, and a riot at the training school just a few months later, Governer Bill Janklow did close the facility.

The facility re-opened in 2007 as the Aurora Plains Academy and instead of a military style boot camp counselors now work with juveniles who have substance abuse, mental health and sexual issues.

Anderson hopes it's a change for the better.

"I hope they do change things. I hope they have some better people out there and some people to police the police and watch what's going on."

Because for years Anderson says nobody really did know what was going on behind these fences in Plankinton.

Two state employees stood trial for Score's death in October 2000 but a jury acquitted them of any wrongdoing.