within prison, and eventually to get parole. Before the murder, Vance had already been in a juvenile detention center, and we asked him what might have helped him at that stage, as a young teenager. His reply was, someone who’d have walked with him after he came out. But there was no such person, as few prisoners meet someone like that priest. We leave most inmates to the company of more experienced criminals and to be dragged down into more violence within prison. It’s possible thus to turn the