The current director of programs at San Bruno talked to me informally one evening, and when I asked her why RSVP hadn’t migrated to other prisons, she told me that unlike a lot of other prison populations, violent men just don’t have their own “champion.”6 A parallel might be incarcerated veterans who have a lot of outside support, and a consensus that we as a country need to be doing more to address their needs, particularly in light of post-traumatic stress. But the most prominent voices around domestic violence are the survivors who, naturally, prioritize their own needs over abusers’.
