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In this special episode of Reality Behind Bars, Ashley talks with Joey Heilman, who spent 78 days in a juvenile detention facility at age 16. Joey has since written about his experience for The Marshall Project and now speaks openly about juvenile incarceration, trauma, solitary confinement, abuse, mental health, and the lasting effects of being incarcerated as a teenager. Joey describes growing up in an abusive home and explains how years of emotional, verbal, and physical abuse shaped the way ...