A warning, the story you are about to hear contains references to sexual assault, which may be triggering for some listeners. 

All this week here on KCBS, we're bringing you inside Soledad State Prison to highlight a unique program run by an East Bay non-profit. 

The Ahimsa Collective is named after the Sanskrit word for "non-violence," and its Empathize program connects survivors of violent crime with prisoners to show the human faces of the harm. 

Here’s KCBS Radio reporter, Kathy Novak, with the second in our series of special reports.