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Shedding Light with Leonna Brandao

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Please feel free to join us on Monday, September 23rd, 2024 at 1:00 pm (EDT). Call In Number (657) 383-1630 as we interview Special Guests Frans Douw and Jessica Dickerson. Hello everyone, I am Leonna Abraham Brandao, Host for Blog Talk Radio/ Shedding Light Frans Douw, former Warden & Jessica Dickerson, The Garrison & Friends Project We have back with us today, two very special guests, Frans Douw, former 27 year Warden from Amsterdam who has been in U.S. Prisons, works with the United Nations, Ministry of Psychiatry, International Red Cross and is currently working on projects in Texas. Frans is well known to thousands and thousands of people around the world and he has so much to offer in the areas of human rights', dignity,mutual respect for others and much more to his successful achievements in helping incarcerated individuals and information to share with overseers on how they too can lower their recidivism rates while appropriately rehabilitating and reducing the mass incarceration rates. Jessica Dickerson, another special guest, is Co-Founder and Project Director of The Garrison & Friends Project which was developed to address the issues of incarceration that affect children. Children who must navigate the prison world face difficulties that other children do not. The first book in the Garrison & Friends series, Garrison's Visitation Day, addresses how to talk to children about incarceration in age-appropriate ways. So let's welcome Frans Douw and Jessica Dickeson as they begin.
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