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Carlyle I. Holder is a proven strategic and innovative executive leader with a career spanning 37 years in criminal justice. Over his 27 years plus of distinguished service with the United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), he served 23 of those years as supervisor, manager, and executive.

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Gregory James

Senior Governmental Affairs Strategist

Gregory L. James, known as a prolific Revivalist, Motivational Speaker, Humanitarian, Social Activist, Prophetic Leader, Author, and Publisher. With over 30 years of experience as a community leader, he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Reclaiming the Land, Inc., (RTL) a corporation that promotes progressive policies, including equality and justice, strategic public-private partnerships and re-enfranchisement of the formerly incarcerated; He is also the Founding Senior Pastor of Life Church International Center, founded in 2010. While God had distinguished Pastor James at age 17 as “the boy preacher” and since has allowed him to attain great accomplishments, it is noteworthy while serving as Senior Pastor in the 1980’s to one of the largest churches in the Northwest Florida region, he was convicted and sentenced to Life+40 years in Federal Prison.

Willie Dawkins-Miller

B.R.I.D.G.E. Consultant

WILLIE DAWKINS-MILLER, an inspiring woman who walks by faith and not sight, a graduate of Florida A& M University, and a mother of two, who is committed to inspiring and nudging all people into their divine destiny. She is the CEO of Water for the Journey, Inc., a professional coaching firm. She is Author of Water for the Journey, a 52-weeks devotional. She uses her Water for the Journey brand to apply the philosophical and spiritual guidelines necessary for others to be successful and accept their divine assignment.

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WISDOM ON RESTRUCTURING PRISON:

“Restructuring starts with the Warden.  The Warden must be wise to under shepherd a strongly will flock of women and men who have been literally locked in pins. If a prison is having riots and significant chaos, and illegal activity, look first to the Warden and then his staff.”

WISDOM ON UNFORGIVENESS:

“It is imperative that we teach forgiveness across the world. It is the cure to what ails us. What I have learned over the years is unforgiveness cannot live in a heart of compassion.”

WISDOM ON REDEEMING FAMILIES RELATIONSHIPS:
“She is a daughter, a mother, a sister, a grandmother, He is a son, a father, a brother, a grandfather. Unless absolutely necessary for family safety, those relation-ships should never be inhibited, but should be preserved at all cost; as they will be needed inside and outside of prison.”
WISDOM ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:

“God forgives a man and makes Him a new creature. What right do we have to hold a man hostage to his past when he has completed the process of renewal? Should he not be given the opportunity to live again without threat and deprivation of civil rights and liberties, after God has spared his life?  The scripture says, “Who the Son set free is free indeed.”

WISDOM ON REINTERGRATION:

“One cannot reintegrate good without infusing and investing good. Church involvement is critical in positive transformation and reintegration.  We must reach people where they are not where we are; that will require that we get uncomfortable, that we get free from our traditional thoughts. The formerly incarcerated will need to be educated, trained for employment, and become Godly Entrepreneurs. That infusion takes money and ministry; and the result will be a Godly family leader, community leader,  national leader, and /or world leader.”

WISDOM ON INDISCRIMINATE GRACE:

“Grace does not discriminate. There is enough grace for both the victims and the violators, for families and the felons. We the believer must be the conduit of God’s grace; which has proven to be sufficient for us all. “

COMMUNITY SAFETY:

“These are men and women not inmates in these prisons. We cannot dehumanize people in prison and expect them to return to their communities rehabilitated. Positive restructuring of prisons will yield positive results for reintegration into families and communities, and that is what reduces crime and eliminates intergenerational incarceration.”

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