Hilton is allowed to call her mother under supervision, but the phone is taken away when she tries to tell her mother what is happening. Hilton starts having to go to Propheets which contain lectures and exercises. For example, a student may be forced to bite down on a towel and keep their head on the ground while another person tries to pull them off the ground with the towel. People are seriously injured at times. Afterward, there is a Rap that lasts the entire night. 

During a lecture, Hilton manages to get permission to go to the bathroom where she crawls out a window above a toilet and runs. She runs until she finds a payphone, where she calls her Aunt Kyle. Her aunt insists on knowing where she is, and while Hilton waits for her aunt, a school enforcer arrives, having been called by Kyle. The enforcer brings her back to the group, and she is beaten and choked. There are rumors that CEDU kids have died in the woods. James Lee Crummel is connected with the deaths of two CEDU boys, and he frequently goes to the school with the staff psychologist, who, over the years, lived with two convicted sex offenders.