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"The man in blue is screaming commands, provoking my trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, though he will never call it that. To him, this is procedure. Policy. Control. To my body, it is a return."

buff.lyFor Child Abuse Survivors Like Me, Prison Reactivates Familiar TraumaPrisons will continue to retraumatize survivors as long as society accepts control as care and punishment as protection.

26/10/26, 9:00 pm20 reposts35 likes

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Jazzy Mason's essay is a 2026 winner of the Keeley Schenwar Memorial Essay Prize, which honors the work of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors who are writing toward a more just world.

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*nods* Gut wrenching. From references cited in the TO article below, it also is more common among inmates to have experienced such childhood trauma compared to a control group. They are not alone 😢 [from 2015] www.texasobserver.org/letters-from...

texasobserver.orgLetters from Death Row: The Biology of TraumaAs Texas leads the nation in executions, new studies raise troubling questions about death row inmates and the impact of childhood trauma.