What trauma has to do with rehabilitation

What trauma has to do with rehabilitation

Comment: In prison, trauma is a constant shadow. Forty-eight percent of men and 44 percent of women in prison in Aotearoa New Zealand have experienced childhood trauma – deeply painful experiences of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, or physical or emotional neglect. As you can imagine, trauma can have life-long effects. It can also affect whether people complete prison-based rehabilitation programmes. One of the main rehabilitation programm…