How hard is it to make a difference?  In a world that seems to be consumed with the negative, it can be hard to find something to be positive about.  Where can I look?  In this interview, host Aaron Dawson and his guest, Jurea Williams with the North Las Vegas Police Department answer those questions.  It can be difficult to make a difference, but you have to care.  In that caring, you will find much to be positive about.  The “I Am Possible” program is making a difference because a community, an agency, a facility, and a group of staff care.  You won’t be able to help smiling!

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Continuing the thought of looking for the positive…Warden Dawson interviews Mr. and Mrs. Bolding, the directors of the Neighborhood Christian Center of Decatur, Alabama.  During the conversation, you get a sense of both their faith and hope.  A belief that there is hope and that what they are doing is making a difference!  Be encouraged and be inspired as you listen to their accounting of how they invest in others.

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There is plenty of material in the law enforcement/corrections field if we are looking to focus on the negative.  The results of this focus, though, do not lead to a fulfilling life or career.  We need to proactively focus on the positive wherever we can find it.  In this spirit, Warden Dawson speaks with folks from the Grand County Sheriff’s Office about their Jail-based Behavioral Services Program.  People are investing in others, and lives are being changed positively.  Be encouraged as we hear what is going on in Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado!

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Continuing our recognition and celebration of Women’s History Month, Host Aaron Dawson interviews Megan Kennedy.  She serves as the Division Director of Detention Health Services of Cochise County in Bisbee, Arizona.  Being a medical professional, she provides some perspective that often, corrections staff don’t know, don’t understand, or don’t fully grasp.  Her unique perspective, as well as her leadership experience, provides a foundation from which she provides some excellent thoughts.

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Continuing our recognition and celebration of Women’s History Month, Host Aaron Dawson interviews Major Deann Cash with the Forsythe County Sheriff's Office in Cumming, Georgia, where she serves as the Jail Bureau Commander.  Major Cash has over 35 years of law enforcement experience, with 25 years of it being in corrections.  She provides some outstanding perspective, encouragement, and advice for all those who are serving in the corrections field.  She has demonstrated her ability to succeed as evidenced by her career, and we are so grateful she was willing to share her insights with us.

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March is Women’s History Month and in honor of that, the Shakedown is focusing on women in leadership roles within the corrections field.  Host Aaron Dawson interviews Jail Commander Natasha Goins from the Jennings County Sheriff’s Office in North Vernon, Indiana.  Commander Goins started out as a line officer and worked her way up through the ranks to her current position.  The Jail Commander position wasn’t something she was looking to have, but her agency needed her and she has stepped up.  Commander Goins shares some key things and thoughts that have helped her be successful and will help all of us if we put them into practice.

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Life can be challenging.  Working in the corrections presents a host of further challenges: being under-staffed, pay disparity in comparison with other industries in the area, a seeming lack of interest in the career field, a lack of longevity among those that do apply, cultural changes in the staff and inmate population, and the list goes on.  What can we do about it?  Host Aaron Dawson encourages us to take a hard look for immediate solutions not externally, but internally.  We can do very little to nothing about the vast array of external factors, but we can do something about me.  Prepare to be challenged and encouraged to stay the course!

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In this final installment of the three-part Border Special, Aaron Dawson and Tate McCotter visit the border.  You will see clips of their visit there and see actual footage of the border wall and the neglect that its received. 

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In this second part of The Shakedown's Border special Warden Aaron Dawson interviews Arizona Sheriffs who deal with the southern border and its daily impacts.  They share their insights and shed more light on how the situation at the border is impacting not only them but everyone in the United States.  

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To start off Season 2 of The Shakedown, host Warden Aaron Dawson takes a trip to the Southern Border with NIJO Director Tate McCotter.  In this two-part series, you will learn shocking facts about the border.  This episode will prove that wherever you are in the country, you're jail is being affected by the border crisis.  

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