“This job really turned me bad,” I was told by a friend who is an educator, years ago. His story affected me deeply. This is the untold story of how a young educator must adapt to the unexpected violence of a youth prison: it doesn’t come from the young inmates, but from her own colleagues. I wish to explore the mechanism by which violence reproduces itself in a place that is supposedly there to reform, the mechanism of institutional silence, the limits of good and bad, and the possibility of managing to stay healthy in an unhealthy place.