Incarcerated men and volunteers at a retreat at the Otisville State Correctional Facility participate in a closing prayer, where the group can share prayer requests and challenges they’re facing at the moment. New York’s Thrive provides a model to the rest of the U.S. for supporting incarcerated men and helping them find stable housing, education, and employment after they’re released. “I started fighting, people trying to kill me in prison,” says Rodriguez, who was incarcerated in New York state prisons for 27 years. He also began attending every prison program he could, including Thrive for Life Prison Project, designed to bring healing and structure to men currently and formerly incarcerated. The trauma of being incarcerated, the trauma of inflicting pain and hurt on other people.