I've watched what trauma did to someone and they didn't go through it alone. There were plenty of people there for them. It made them worse every time something like that happened. No matter what I or anybody else did for them, they just kept slipping further and further into someone I don't know if I even recognize anymore. Because why should they care anymore if that kind of thing just keeps happening over and over again?

I watched them give up on everything, including themselves.

What you're really saying is that you don't have faith in anyone else here in the end. You're saying that you don't have any belief in their ability to change without something really bad happening to them if it hasn't already.

If we're the ones--wardens and inmates--that really help them, then the trauma is unnecessary. If they have any real chance at changing for the better, it's not through trauma. It's through them seeing there's another way and wanting to take that other way for themselves. Some of them may be stubborn and fight it every step of the way, but they can come around eventually.