There's a growing recognition within the criminal justice community that understanding trauma and how it affects people is essential to changing how we respond in the CJ system. My dream is that we'll one day have a fully trauma-informed system of restorative justice in the US, rather than the retributive justice system we have now. (I even gave a TEDx talk a couple of years ago posing the radical suggestion that prison should be used ONLY as a last resort!!) Anyway, we're posting a series of articles on the website for our prisoner reentry coalition here in Pennsylvania about trauma, ACEs and the CJ system. I'll share the links here in case these are helpful to folks on the ACESConnection forum. Here's the first article:
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