When I was a bit older, I remember asking the grown-ups around me what a prison was and being told that it's where bad people go. "Why?", I asked. "Because they did bad things." "Why?", I asked again, and was never given a satisfactory answer. But I've learnt that the answer is more complex than "because they did bad things." Many in our prison system have been hurt themselves, often as children by people they trusted. We must break the cycle of children growing into adults who harm others.