A trauma-informed approach to prisons to help those incarcerated
Feb. 3
Kevin Wright is the Director of the Center for Correctional Solutions and an Associate Professor at ASU’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice. Wright has collaborated with an Arizona inmate on a book that examines why investing in healing prisoners would benefit everyone.
The book “Imprisoned Minds: Lost Boys, Trapped Men, and Solutions from Within the Prison,” was published in January 2025. It is the result of seven years of work from Wright and Erik Maloney, who is incarcerated at the Red Rock Correctional Center in Eloy.
The book tells the stories of six incarcerated men who faced traumatic childhoods filled with abuse, neglect and abandonment.
Maloney and Wright describe how this background puts young people on a path to “imprisoned minds,” and how a trauma-informed approach in prisons can undo the mindset and help the incarcerated people, prison employees and even victims.
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