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Jail Training Center – Part 02

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By slaveobjectx

I flew from London to Atlanta. Atlanta airport is something else! Huge. For whatever reason, I was pulled over for a search coming through Customs. My suitcase was mostly taken up with my leather gear and boots but the black lady sifting through my stuff must have seen it all before. Not even the hint of a knowing smile. Finally I was waved through and there was Mike waiting for me.

I knew that The Center was not actually in Atlanta but I had not expected it to be some thirty miles north, through a commuter town and then through countryside until we arrived at an area filled with up-market, large houses, most with swimming pool and very much sitting cheek by jowl. One was overlooked in all directions. We parked and entered through the main door to the house. How different it used to be for the inmates of The Academy! The illusion of jail was maintained through picking them up at the airport in a prepared van with blackened windows. As such they would have seen nothing of the seeming normality of the setting of The Academy in an oasis of respectability.

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Jail Training Center – Part 01

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I had known it as the Academy Training Center. It only advertised in the pages of Drummer, the pioneering gay BDSM magazine, which all leathermen were addicted to if they could get hold of it. It was banned in the UK. I picked up copies if I visited NYC or Amsterdam. Jack Fritscher also wrote an article for Drummer about The Academy, and this is still available online. My memories provide a kind of partial coda to that account and also give a slightly different, and I believe truer version, of how The Academy ended and The Jail Training Center came into being.

For those of you who know nothing of The Academy, I’ll fill you in a little here. It started in the late 1980s and, at that time, was situated in Missouri. What it offered — at a hefty price — was a ‘real’ jail experience. I say ‘real’ because it differed in some interesting ways from a true jail experience. It’s an undoubted fact that the guards were recruited from either serving or ex-serving prison guards and police officers. But sex was in no way part of the equation.

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TBT: The Jail Training Center

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Does anybody know whatever happened to the Jail Training Center? Does the facility itself still exist?

The Jail Training Center

 

Before it was the Jail Training Center it was the Academy, first in Missouri and then in the Atlanta area. I went twice when it was in the Atlanta area, after it had become the Jail Training Center, and this was after Chip had departed the scene.

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The story behind the Jail Training Center/Academy

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Speaking of Jack Fritscher (see last week’s posting) there is much more to share. Many of you guys remember the Jail Training Center/Academy:

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Well, Jack Fritscher was there! He writes:

“My longtime friend, Chip Weichelt, was the founder of The Training Center Academy. I worked as producer on several of his films, especially his first, ‘Atlanta Knights.’ As the founding San Francisco editor or Drummer magazine, I went undercover for Drummer, with Chip’s cooperation, and wrote a Drummer feature article about the Academy in Drummer 145, January 1990.

 

To read that story, plus Jack’s detailed history of Chip, his life, and how his Training Center and videos were created, click here.

Metal would like to thank Jack Fritscher for sharing this stuff!

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Jail Training Center / The Academy

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There once was a place just outside Atlanta with realistic jail cells, solitary confinement and a padded isolation chamber. It was a place where you used to be able to go and — for a fee — have real cops and military guys (supposedly straight, but who knows) lock you up and work you over. When they were operating under the name of the Jail Training Center, I went twice. Here is a picture during my first visit of my boots when I was locked in one of their cells, and another picture during my first visit of me hogtying a guy.

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There is also some video out there somewhere of me helping restrain another guy in a straitjacket, which I have never seen. I have since lost touch with the guy who was running it, and I am not sure if the place is even still in operation. If it is still running, I am not aware of it. Before the place in Atlanta, they also had a facility in Missouri.  It was also called The Academy.