29. Franz Douw & Edwin Kleiss: TBS Prisons in the Netherlands - hosting ”The Prison Show”

For this episode we are delighted to be hosting Frans Douw and Edwin Kleiss who present the “Prison Show” podcast. Although their podcast is most often recorded in Dutch, there are a number of English episodes so we would encourage you to check it out below. At the age of 20, Frans began working with young incarcerated people before heading up the Dutch Psychiatric Pre-trial Assessment Clinic for 10 years. Between 1988-2015, he was director of several houses of detention, prisons for men and woman and director of the Forensic Psychiatric Centre of the Dutch Prison System. His last position was as a Governor of several penitentiary institutes for long-term (including life-time) incarcerated people.For the last 15 years, Frans has been involved in international knowledge exchange projects within the scope of incarceration and human rights with Russia, former Soviet countries, Great Britain, the Caribbean and the USA. This international involvement sometimes occurs due to his own initiative, but he’s also worked with the Dutch ministry of Justice, NGOs like the Global Initiative on Psychiatry and Mainline and the Council of Europe.
In 2011, Toon Walravens and Frans created the foundation of Recovery and Return. This foundation brings together victims, perpetrators, families and professionals and supports Restorative and Transformational Justice. The Podcast Prison Show which Edwin and Frans co-host is an activity of the foundation.

This is a link to our appearance on their Podcast which is in english as are these episodes,11, 21, 23, 29, 30, 39 and 44.

 

https://prisonshow.podbean.com/e/94-locked-up-living-podcast-with-naomi-murphy-david-jones-english/