The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in
the world. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2,266,800 adults were
incarcerated in U.S. federal and state prisons and county jails at year-end
2010 – about 0.7% of the resident adult population. Childhood trauma increases
the likelihood of criminal justice involvement in adulthood (Wolf & Shi,
2010). A high percentage of prisoners are survivors of childhood abuse and
other traumas before they are imprisoned (Wallace, Connor, &
Dass-Brailsford, 2011), and prisons are notoriously violent and traumatic
places for inmates. In a survey of inmates in Midwestern prisons, 54% of men
and 28% of women reported having been raped in their current facility
(Struckman-Johnson & Struckman-Johnson, 2000). In short, prisons are
veritable warehouses of traumatized adults.
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