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Prisons: Punishment or healing?

September 27, 2010 Madonna Gauding Charity & Justice, Good government, Government 2 comments

Jacques Verduin, founder of the Insight Prison Project (IPP) thinks prisons should be for healing. IPP is non-profit community organization working in collaboration with

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