Step Inside the Circle, is a short film by the Compassion Prison Project. Here we see the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) test visually represented by asking inmates to step inside the circle for each ACE that they experienced. Founder, Fritzi Horstman’s passion is to shift the paradigm of how we incarcerate, isolate and dehumanize the […]

In this deeply touching film, Honor Yard, inmates discuss their childhood trauma, how it affected them, and lead to their acting out the trauma over and over again. Creating trauma-informed prison systems is so important to the success of inmates once they are released.