Prevention is Worth It

By his early teens, Daniel Antonio Silva had already been in and out of juvenile hall. At 18, assault with a deadly weapon and murder charges landed him in prison for 39 years. Since his release in 2015, he credits prison rehabilitation programs with his success on the outside.

“Without the rehab, I probably wouldn’t have made it out here in society,” he says. “It’s a tough world out here.”

But what if Silva didn’t have the support to make his re-entry successful? Or what if he never ended up in the criminal justice system at all?