Inside the prison system with Warden Shelith Hansbro of the Decatur Correctional Institution

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 22 June 2016

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Commander Mark Divine talks to Warden Shelith Hansbro who has run the Decatur Correctional Institution for the past 6 years. This podcast gets into how a prison warden can have an Unbeatable Mind, in the midst of an environment that often brings despair, crime, hopelessness—but can also sometimes bring restoration, hope and change for the better. After spending time there with the team, Shelith Hansbro shares her perspective on how prison works, ought to work and describes a number of innovative programs she has developed for offenders, including a program to keep pregnant mothers with their new-born children in prison.

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0:20.1	Christmas. Better with Pepsi Max. It's not my job to punish offenders who are in my in my facility. That's not my job.
0:47.0	They were punished when they're locked up in prison doesn't mean that they stop being that
0:58.9	parent or stop being someone that their family cares for in love.
1:03.6	The UTT.
1:06.6	Hey folks, this is Commander Mark Devine.
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1:59.1	any offers we have and that kind of cool stuff. All right, so today I'm actually speaking with someone I met in Boston a few weeks ago
2:08.0	when I was visiting and presenting and doing some work with a group called the Prison Fellowship and one of
2:14.1	their kind of sub-organizations called the Warden Exchange. So I'm we're talking
2:19.1	to Shelleth or Sheila.
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