Almost everyone in prison has one thing in common: trauma and brokenness. They come from shattered and impoverished communities, dysfunctional families. They never imagined a future that didn’t include time behind bars. In many cases that’s because the people closest to them walked the same path. Reporter Sarah Schweinsberg travels to California and Massachusetts to meet Christians working to break that cycle, starting with its youngest victims.

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