Episode 33, Joy Gilfilen, podcast host, speaks with Children in Prison author Jerome Gold who worked inside the Echo Glen Juvenile Corrections Center as a rehabilitation counselor for 15 years. This is a rare look inside the ways that the Washington State children’s prison operates. It opens the mind to new views about how children who have been convicted of felonies are treated and how sincere rehabilitation is necessary to help children change course in life.

An anthropologist and Vietnam Veteran, Gold is a publisher who has also written two other documentary books about children in prison including one called Paranoia & Heartbreak and In the Spider’s Web. His compassionate insights are thoughtful about how to humanize and make our system more responsive. He also shares perspectives about the challenges facing young people dealing with multi-layers of violence inside their lives.