Jan Arriens

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  • Jan Arriens spent the first 10 years of his professional life as an Australian diplomat, later setting up a translation business in the UK. Jan became a Quaker in the mid-1980s. In 1988 he founded the charity LifeLines, whose members correspond with prisoners on death row in the US. He has been a Quaker prison chaplain, and has been a member of the Quaker International Conciliation Group for the past 15 years.

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