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- Justin on Serving LIFE
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- Watch Justin Granier serve as a Hospice Volunteer while he serves his mandatory life without parole sentence.
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- Angola Prison Hospice : Opening the Door
Published On :- 2011-Sept-8th
Channel :- Open Society Foundations
Link - Free at last
Profile :- This story is about the pioneering hospice program at the Louisiana State Prison and its impact on the culture of what was once called America’s Bloodiest Prison. Videography by Hank Bargine.
Channel :- Pat Woodard
Date Published :- 2013-Feb-6th
Link - An interview with Warden Burl Cain – Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, La.
Profile :- An interview with Warden Burl Cain – Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola, La.
Channel :- Maranatha Baptist
Date Published :- 2012-Oct-23rd
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Angola Prison Hospice : Opening the Door
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Half of the 5,000 inmates at the maximum-security Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are serving life sentences, and it is estimated that 85 percent of them will grow old and die there. Edgar Barens’s documentary examines one of the nation’s first prison-based hospice programs, a program that notably incorporates inmate volunteers into the care of other dying inmates.
Angola Prison Hospice: Opening the Door was produced by two former OSF programs, the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture and the Project on Death in America.
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Justin on Serving LIFE
Part 1
Part 2
- Burl Cain, Warden
- Deeds
- He did a horrible thing, he put somebody in the grave
- But, I could not undo that
- Nobody can
- Best
- We just do the best we can while they are here with us
- And, so we are going to do the right thing
- Care
- Don’t nobody wants to be cared for
- Don’t nobody wants to be forgotten
- One another
- So we are gonna to take care of one another
- I am going to dig your grave and somebody else is going to dig mine
- Deeds
- Trainer Conversation
- You suppose to love that dud
- I thought he was going to be around a lot longer
- There is not too much you can get
- Now is just in you, you have gotten everything you can get from it
- Shaheed
- Hospice Volunteer
- Relationships
- Importance of relationships, family relationships
- Family Bonds
- Self
- I might be headstrong
- I might want to live this thing out by myself
- Like Mr. Fred did
- I have been an idiot
- Helping one live life out with love
- Bible College
- One year in already in Bible College
- Burden
- I don’t want to be a burden to you
- Lesson Learnt
- It takes a certain to degree to burn metal, just like it takes to burn water
- I was filthy
- I was an impure person
- Now I am able to help myself
- That is what I needed
- Kevin’s Passing
- Volunteer #1
- Seeing so many come see Kevin made me want to think that just may be in my last days others will come see me, as well
- Volunteer #1
- Shaheed
- I have heard Hospice refer to helping someone die with dignity
- But, more that that, it is helping one live out there lives in love
- Burl Cain
- For Others
- It is the opposite of caring about self
- And, that is the redemption
- And, that is the rehabilitation
- I
- I did something good
- I did something for somebody else
- For Others
- Albert Lavalais
- Giving back is what really matters
- What I need I threw that out a long time ago
- Hospice Care
- Snapin #1
- Know that each patient is going to transition
- And, he is going to do soon
- He has an incurable disease
- Snapin #2
- Forgive in other to be forgiven
- Snapin #3
- Care
- Snapin #4
- Justin
- Infraction
- Ms. Sandy
- Ms. Sandy thinks highly of you
- Quit?
- I will be quitting on the men I gave my word to
- On the Street
- More on medicin
- Here
- Taking care of the men
- Justin
- Snapin #5
- Family
- Son came to visit
- Hard
- Hard to see somebody wither away, but you got to be there
- Family
- Snapin #6
- Snapin #1
