[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 12001]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           BEAUTY BEHIND BARS

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                         HON. MARSHA BLACKBURN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, September 7, 2016

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to acknowledge a wonderful 
event that 94 FM the Fish hosted called Beauty Behind Bars. This event 
took place on July 30th of this year at the Vanderbilt Student Life 
Center. It was an excellent opportunity for women in the community to 
be transformed, inspired, and empowered.
  Beauty Behind Bars is an organization designed to help women and 
girls break away from mental incarceration and self-imprisonment of low 
self-esteem, doubt, depression, suicide, and dream killing. They also 
teach the importance of forgiveness, accountability, and the 
significance of loving self from the inside out. They educate the 
community by providing seminars and conferences.
  I commend Beauty Behind Bars and 94 FM the Fish for their willingness 
to host a free training workshop that will continue to influence and 
change women for the rest of their lives. They have set an excellent 
example of what it means to ``set the captives free.'' My hope is that 
they will continue to bring freedom to women of all ages and for 
generations to come.

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