Where to start with this tweet. Because of the pandemic, prisons are closed, but if they weren& #39;t I would invite you to attend our victim awareness class at CSP LAC where you would meet people who as children faced unfathomable situations of abuse, neglect and trauma. https://twitter.com/StevenHerbert/status/1263525647260872704">https://twitter.com/StevenHer...

Yes, people are responsible for their actions. But almost every person I& #39;ve met in prison was a victim in some way before they ever created harm. As a person who experienced losing a loved one to homicide, I am most interested in making sure no one else has this experience.

And punishing people has been a failure. It doesn& #39;t create healing or accountability, just more trauma and violence. Yes, we need to create safety and make sure that people don& #39;t continue harming, but a lifetime in prison for every person who commits a crime isn& #39;t how to do this

Many victims have unmet needs that are not addressed in any way by incarceration - they want to know what happened, and why, they want to share about impact, they want to make sure that no one else will experience same harm. Incarceration doesn& #39;t give them most of this.

And yes, there are a small number of people who are so damaged that they don& #39;t have capacity for healing or change. We don& #39;t need a 13.4 billion dollar punitive system for them.