Kind of what you're asking. I was at an "emotional growth" boarding school in Idaho called CEDU for two years straight. We were pretty much cut off from everything. No radio, cartoon network only. We got one monitored phone call every two weeks, an occasional letter and that's it. 9/11 happened when I was there, and my mom was a flight attendant, and they wouldn't let me call home, while kids who were from New York got to call home immediately. That kind of explains the place.
Here's kind of a little "documentary" about it. If you want a serious dose of WTF watch the one titled "The Summit". Fun times. I just woke up from a crazy dream about it a few hours ago.