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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

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So another big component of this program is, just like hospice volunteers in the community, we have hospice volunteers/workers who are peers from the incarcerated population who receive extensive training on how to sit with people, how to communicate, how to listen, how to protect themselves upon from the grief and loss that comes from this job.

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