Willie Davis and Jeff Hunsaker invite correctional leaders and independent researchers to examine two hypotheses about lasting internal change and prison culture.

MANSFIELD, OH, October 22, 2026 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Two Ohio prison practitioners with decades of experience working inside correctional institutions are asking whether prisons could improve public safety and rehabilitation by looking beyond the behavior that brought inmates to prison and examining the realities that shaped their lives before prison. They have begun calling this examination Root-Cause Rehabilitation.

"Protecting public safety while rehabilitating inmates is a difficult dual mission for prisons," say Willie Davis and Jeff Hunsaker. "By their nature, prisons deal with the effects of crime, not the causes of crime. What if another layer of thinking could help prisons become better at both protecting the public and inmate rehabilitation?"

Davis and Hunsaker are two prison practitioners who have worked years behind bars with inmates. They are not researchers, clinicians, psychologists, or academics. Their work has led them to two hypotheses:

• Lasting internal change begins when inmates willingly start facing the realities that brought them to prison.
• Inmates who experience lasting internal change can become positive influences within a prison's informal culture.

Davis and Hunsaker are inviting correctional leaders and independent researchers to examine whether their two hypotheses deserve formal investigation.

"Instead of waiting until shortly before release to help prepare someone to live differently when released, what might happen if a meaningful opportunity began years earlier to face possible childhood trauma, rejection, abandonment, fear, shame, distorted beliefs, or other realities that shaped the choices that brought them to prison?" says Davis.

Davis and Hunsaker have also developed reading content specifically for inmates. Their novels and short stories are intended to invite inmates to examine their own lives and the realities that shaped them—an important consideration in their primary hypothesis.

Prisons cannot change the realities that brought an inmate to prison. But they may have an opportunity to help inmates face those realities and begin living differently while still incarcerated. Davis and Hunsaker wonder whether that possibility deserves closer examination. They are asking if anyone wants to wonder with them.

About The Kronos Project

The Kronos Project is an initiative developed by Ohio prison practitioners Willie Davis and Jeff Hunsaker. Drawing on decades of experience working with inmates inside correctional institutions, they are exploring Root-Cause Rehabilitation, an approach that invites inmates to examine the realities that shaped their lives and contributed to their incarceration. Their work includes books, workshops, and other content designed to encourage personal reflection and lasting internal change. They are seeking independent researchers and correctional leaders interested in examining their hypotheses.

www.kronosproject.net

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