By Lodro Rinzler for the Good Men Project

A few years ago I was…

Michigan prisoners offered opportunity to practice meditation

By Adam Tebbe for Shambala SunSpace

Sokuzan Robert Brown, a Soto Zen priest in the lineage of the late Kobun Chino Otogawa,…

Inmates to get peek into prison history from perspective of freedom struggle

by S. Vijay Kumar for The Hindu…

The Prison Dharma's Evolution

from Northwest Dharma News

On November 17 five Buddhist teachers and volunteers arrived at Steilacoom, Washington, showed their IDs to a corrections officer and stepped…

February 17, At the Safefouse Outreach Center, 6:30-9

Yoga for Trauma and Addiction - -client care and self care is designed for counselors, therapist  and other professionals whose clients have issues with trauma and addiction. Yoga for Trauma and Addiction was created by Yoga Teachers, Geri Topfer, Penni Feiner and Yoga Therapist, Nancy Candea, who collectively have spent hundreds of hours working in rehab centers, shelters, and jails. Their clients…

December 13th, 2011

By Rachel Signer

Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that California prisons were…

from the Times of India

CHENNAI: Additional…

Dear PDN Family,



Many thanks to all of you for the great work you do in bringing the transformational power of meditation and the Dharma to prisoners and everyone touched by our criminal justice system.   Many thanks for ongoing friendship and support for PDN.  We are proud to represent a prison Dharma community of over 5000 dedicated prison volunteers and corrections professionals and tens of thousands of dedicated prisoner practitioners.  Very best wishes to all of you for…

An Arizona court ruled that a fee charged to prison visitors is constitutional. Once again the burden is placed on poor families already struggling to keep their loved ones connected to a support system that study after study shows is essential for keeping ex-offenders out of jail. I am sometimes overwhelmed by the mean-spiritedness of our penal system and have to work hard to maintain my faith in people's goodness.