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In this riveting nonfiction book, John Hubner takes us inside a treatment program for the most severely violent youth criminals in the state. In Texas, where prison conditions are harsh and most offenders receive determinate sentences, intensive treatment programs offer violent kids a final chance to change their antisocial patterns of behavior. At the Giddings State School, a treatment facility for the most serious criminal youth offenders in Texas, John Hubner follows one group of boys and one group of girls as they work their way through their final phase of rehabilitation: the Capital and Serious Violent Offenders group treatment program.