Prison Changes the Mind What Incarceration Does to Identity, Trauma, Relationships, and Life After Release
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
07.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
166
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,1 cm
Gewicht
210 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798191318387
The prison gate may open at the end of a sentence-but the mind does not always walk out so easily.
Incarceration changes more than where a person lives. It can change how a person sleeps, trusts, communicates, handles conflict, responds to authority, connects with family, and understands freedom itself.
Survival behind the walls may require constant awareness, emotional armor, rigid routines, distrust, and the ability to hide vulnerability. Those behaviors may help someone survive prison-but they can become heavy baggage when it is time to come home.
In Prison Changes the Mind, correctional professionals Carey L. Randall and Chris Taylor draw on more than 35 years of combined correctional experience to examine the psychological journey of incarceration from intake through release.
Inside, readers will explore:
- Arrival shock and the loss of control
- Hypervigilance and the nervous system in constant alert
- Identity, anger, grief, guilt, and shame
- Isolation and emotional shutdown
- Family separation and relationships under pressure
- Healthy and destructive coping mechanisms
- Mental-health treatment behind the walls
- The influence of correctional staff and institutional culture
- Why freedom itself can feel overwhelming
- Rebuilding trust after incarceration
- Mental-health challenges during reentry
- A practical plan for the first 90 days after release
Written for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, families, correctional professionals, ministry and reentry teams, criminal-justice students, and anyone seeking to better understand the realities behind prison walls.
Freedom is more than leaving a cell.
It is learning how to feel safe, connected, purposeful, and human again.
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