Was this a state run program? Or a state sponsored prgram that was run by an independant company?
I remember a few years ago that there was a big blow up about boot camps being terrible places in Arizona. It seems that alot of them are independantly run.
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-gulags.html
This has a summary of some of the deaths in some boot camp situations . . . its a little biased but if you scroll to the news aricles it lists some of the issues.