I 'm going home in very few days.

Honestly I did not want to go home.

Been here for 20 years.

And it's people like Miss Jo Dee, she has allowed me to be proud of that now

when I wasn't before.

My name is Jo Dee Davis and I am the Executive Director of Healing Broken Circles,

which provides space for healing and learning for people touched by the justice system.

There are about 2,400 men in this institution.

Most people have a view of prison and prisoners that they aren't of value.

I 'm told by a lot of people these guys aren't worth it, and yet I look around and I see people learning

and see people taking charge of themselves.

To me it doesn't matter what anybody did, I'm not about the past.

It's who you are right now

and it's where you want to go in the future.

I don't think you want the person who came to prison to come live next to you.

I think that you want them to be better.

My name is Michael.

I'm a lifer, I will probably never see the streets,

and I think one of the most important things I do in here is to encourage other people who will.

The men here have histories of trauma and toxic stress that has affected the way they think.

Research is showing the things that really work in healing those traumatic effects

and they are things like yoga, writing and poetry, dancing and singing and doing theater

and being silly and improv.

Those guys are creating new ways of thinking and healing.

You guys know my poetry.

I 'll give you guys the option of " The Missing " or the " I Miss You " piece,

which, which shall I rock?

I Miss You.

Alright that's what I 'll rock.

My name 's Dan, I 've been at Marion for about eleven years.

I 've taken part and been part of every program I think Jo Dee has done.

When I met him he had this buzzcut and he was tough looking

and he 's got hatred written on his neck.

My daily day was just continuing the kind of activity that would bring you to prison, just did it inside of prison.

I looked in his eyes and I thought, " You know what, this, this thing I see out here is not who's in there."

And we 've come a long way since then.