To avoid criminal charges, Skakel's family sent him to the Elan School in Poland Spring, Maine, where he received treatment for alcoholism.

On March 23, 2011, Elan School announced it would be closing its doors on April 1, 2011.

An unauthorized biography of the founder of the Elan School, Joe Ricci.

He was later sent to the Elan School, a school for teenagers with drug abuse problems in Poland Springs, Me.

In January, Joseph Ricci, the founder of the Elan School, died of cancer.

North 5 goes to only one place: the Elan School, a treatment center for troubled youths that bills itself as a last resort.

The state's problems with witnesses from the Elan School continued today with testimony by Alice Dunn, a former student who later joined the school's staff.

Elan School, a private 8-12 school, opened in Poland in 1976.

The bulk of the day's testimony focused on the two former classmates from the Elan School who told Judge Dennis that they had heard the defendant confess.

He was eventually sent to the Elan School in Poland, Maine to finish high school.