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Dan Akins

The primary way I have been affected by my experience with the program was that…

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Jeffery Winchester

Having spent a collective 30+ years in prison, I’ve grown accustomed to the hatred, violence, racism, anger, negativity, and ruthlessness that prison has to offer.

I am no stranger to a world filled with anger and violence, having afflicted permanent brain damage onto one man, taking the lives of two other men, and committing a brutal penitentiary stabbing myself.

Over the past 20 years, I have involved myself in numerous programs with one goal in mind: to make myself a better person so that I will never harm another human being as long as I live.

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David Robidoux

I’ve been incarcerated for 22 years. I started taking a weekly Nonviolent Communication class just six weeks ago and found out how useful it was j when I came before the parole board. They asked me to give them an example of how I’ve changed, how I deal with conflict now. I told them this story about how I was confronted with a situation that illustrated my new attitude.

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