#3: Special – Prison reform and the Compassion Prison Project

In our first special episode, we're presenting amazing approaches
like a prison model without wardens and guns in Brazil, and we're
talking to Fritzi Horstman, the founder of the Compassion Prison
Project.


Further stories mentioned


Brazil's jails reduce recidivism rates without wardens and guns,
DW


Reducing incarceration decreases number of violent crimes in the
US, Reasons To Be Cheerful


Prison with no fence helps women readjust to life in the
community before their release, Charlotte Observer


Fitness entrepreneurship course offers a second chance to the
formerly incarcerated, Next City


Two prisoners care for fellow inmates with mental illnesses in
pioneering US initiative, The Christian Science Monitor


Former inmates partially run probation system in US, BBC


Prisoners are becoming lawyers in the US, Reasons To Be Cheerful


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