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Welcome to the Inside Circle podcast with your host Eldra Jackson III. Eldra spent over a decade unlearning dangerous lessons about masculinity and finding freedom while serving 24 years in prison.
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Eileen Ruiter: Building Inside Circle in a Dutch Prison, episode 94 (opens the original)
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Eileen Ruiter, founder of Inside Circle Netherlands, joins host Eldra Jackson III to share how a documentary about Inside Circle's work sparked a two-year journey to bring Circle into a Dutch prison — one met with security pushback, a strip search, and a culture where naming your own emotions is nearly taboo. She opens up about her "average" Dutch childhood, her parents' divorce, the grandmother who shaped her, and the honesty inside Circle she says she can't find anywhere else. A conversation a
William Harris: Building a Life From Scratch, episode 93 (opens the original)
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After 30 years inside William Harris is starting over in a city where he knows no one. Host Eldra Jackson III sits down with the longtime Inside Circle member, part of the group since its first Tuesday in the New Folsom chapel, to talk about the identity crisis that shaped his path to prison, the mentor who helped turn him around, and why he chose Oakland over going home to Sacramento. William opens up about masking pain with alcohol, chasing belonging through gang life, and the slow work of bec
Peace Was the Point: Keilen Crenshaw on Anger, Healing, and Learning to Respect the River, episode 92 (opens the original)
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Keilen Crenshaw learned early that the world responded to force. Taken from his mother at 10, cycling through foster care, carrying unchecked anger that eventually led to a four-and-a-half-year federal sentence — survival was the only thing he knew. What he didn't know was where that anger came from. Or what it had cost him. In this episode, Keilen traces the full arc: from a school hallway in DC to the Middle Fork of the American River, where getting thrown from a raft and coming up gasping tau
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