Men she met in her daily work life did some violent act to land them in prison, then did their time in the culture of violence that is incarceration in America today, and then brought that heightened level of violence right back into their families and communities. Schwartz began to see the children of the men she knew from her early days in corrections. And then the grandchildren. There had to be a better way, she thought. Violence isn’t supposed to be genetic. She’d seen the levels of incarceration rise year after year, but she knew crime in the United States wasn’t falling accordingly.
...more
