Why it’s So Hard to Break the Prison Cycle

'Messiah Rhodes was just a kid when his mom first went to jail. Over the course of 15 years, she went back four times. Messiah speaks to his mother and looks back on his childhood to understand why so many women are trapped in the U.S. criminal justice system. This is the first episode in a two-part series on women in the U.S. prison system called Against All Odds in collaboration with AJContrast' -- AJ+