Deeply engaging and extremely compassionate look at people who committed heinous crimes, from a therapist who worked with them her entire life in Broadmoore, the infamous prison for the mentally ill that actually seemed a pretty nice place of employment. Many of them have been warped in various ways by harsh childhood treatments aligning just-so with personality systems that resulted in these worst possible outcomes, but the suffering they experience is quite often heartbreaking, and many struggle with shame and depression after they committed deeds that can never be undone.

The dilemma here is how much support and mental health care these folks get after their issues spilled over to cause great harm to their victims and to society; while the victims are allotted no support and must either suffer on their own or get therapy/support using their own funds and effort. It's extremely unfair, but more as a reflection on how society generally do not prioritize mental health until it's too late, rather than whether prisoners should get mental health care at all, or whether they deserve compassionate understanding despite having committed crimes. Ideally, EVERYONE should have access to good mental health care, victims of crimes even more so. They should receive automatic access to equal (if not greater) support from teams of therapists and social workers and be held in the capable hands of experienced professionals, on society's dime. Even better, everyone should have better PREVENTATIVE care, which is 100x better. What a world that would be.