Shadow of Childhood Harm Behind Prison Walls

Prison. Just reading the word conjures up mental images of harshness and negativity. While the word ''criminal'' summons feelings of fear, disgust, anger, aggression, and revenge. These near-universal feelings about criminals are the foundation of prisons as places where harm, through neglect, indifference, and paucity, festers and replicates like a virus. For this reason, any conversation about p...