Check out our new searchable database of prison dharma organizations and groups around the world!

PDN's Network of Prison Dharma Or… Continue

Friends,

Please help...by sending letters to Commissioner of the prison, attorney general, senators, and representatives in Georgia!

As of January 1st, 2010...severe punitive measures have been initiated for Death Row in Jackson, Georgia.

Contact Visits were taken away...

http://sundaypaper.com/More/Archives/tabid/98/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4964/Trouble-on-death-… Continue

Dalai Lama and Harrison Ford Film Inspires Prison Inmates to Resolve Conflicts

The Dalai Lama Renaissance film, narrated by Harrison Ford, and a Q&A with Director Khashyar Darvich, offer insights on inner peace to men behind bars, half of whom are incarcerate… Continue

Mindfulness Bell articles on prison sanghas. Pages 19-24 of the attached pdf. MindfulnessBell.pdf

In "Free Again," the photographer Yusuf Sayman chronicles the day-to-day challenges associated with the re-entry process that follows a long prison sentence. His subjects are Tarik, a man in his third week of freedom after a four-year prison sentence (which began when he was just 16), and Dori… Continue

By Rachel Cernansky
Boulder, CO, USA | Wed Jan 13, 2010 10:30 AM ET

Prisons are not known for their culinary delights, but the lack of nutritionally-balanced meals for prisoners may actually be contributing to the cycle of violence that our country's prison system has not been all that successful in… Continue

By now I thought the shocked reactions to the Department of Justice’s report on sexual abuse of juveniles in detention centers would’ve disappeared. But articles and editorials from across the country continue to appear as states grapple with shocking numbers that won’t go away. Will all this worry and lament translate into change? Who knows?

The one thing I’m pretty sure won’t change is America’s fear of these new barbarians marauding our streets in hordes (except today we call them “gangs.”)… Continue

I was "introduced" to Grady Bankhead, one of the Dhamma Brothers at Donaldson Correctional Facility, through the documentary film of the same name. It is such a powerful and inspiring story of the brutal life experiences of the inmates and the redemption found in Vipassana Meditation that I immediately enrolled in a 10-day Vipassana course in Colorado. I decided that if the men that I saw in the documentary could endure being in a maximum-security prison that is frought with violence, unbearable… Continue