Last month, I woke up to the news spreading like wildfire: Ten young men had escaped from the Orleans Justice Center. No one heard me when I said they were on the edge of something—something hopeful or something fatal. As a prison traumatologist and decarceration expert, I saw what no textbook could ever teach. I watched these boys be slammed to the ground with such force that it could have broken their bones. Let’s give them a reason to stand tall—to take responsibility and be held accountable, not through shame or punishment, but through truth, healing, and community.