‘The Program’ Is a Powerful True Crime Reckoning for the ‘Troubled Teen’ Industry

In the militaristic, abusive, unregulated “school” where teenaged Katherine Kubler was imprisoned for fifteen months, many books were banned. But one book that wasn’t was The Count of Monte Christo—the story of a man falsely imprisoned by his enemies who escaped to wreak revenge on those who’d wronged him. Katherine took that book as a model: when she got out, …

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