[3] The 963-acre (390 ha) facility is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and it is open to any qualified boy, regardless of his or his family's ability to pay the tuition.
[4] In December 1999, former counselor Larry Wisenbaker pleaded guilty to multiple sexual crimes involving minors at St. Jude's Ranch for Children in Boulder City, Nevada.
He was fired from West Texas Boys Ranch after complaints of sexual abuse early in his employment in 1998.
[6] Wisenbaker was sentenced to four life terms in prison in February 2000 after District Judge Kathy Hardcastle became aware that he was previously convicted of assaulting a child at Hephzibah Home for Children in Macon, Georgia.
[7] In 2003 a FedEx Cessna Caravan crashed on a plot of land belonging to the ranch.
Several chores, such as mopping the kitchen, vacuuming the living room, and taking out the trash, are rotated among the boys.