A friend posted this documentary to FB which made me pause.
The connection between trauma and shame and poverty and mass incarceration cannot be denied.
I was reminded of Brene Brown's "Listening to Shame" TED Talk (transcript).
and Jackson Katz's TED Talk on domestic abuse and victim-blaming.
I have been thinking a lot about prison reform, policing, history, and the Black Lives Matter Movement.
I became curious to learn more after watching this clip - I found:
https://insidecircle.org/
And this TED Talk:
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a whole, healthy man. "The challenge is to eradicate this cycle of emotional illiteracy and groupthink," he says.
1,516,234 views TEDxNewYork | November 2014
"As a teenager, Ismael Nazario was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he spent 300 days in solitary confinement -- all before he was ever convicted of a crime. Now as a prison reform advocate he works to change the culture of American jails and prisons, where young people are frequently subjected to violence beyond imagination. Nazario tells his chilling story and suggests ways to help, rather than harm, teens in jail."