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Just 2 Days Left to VOTE for HOPE

Friends,  There are just 2 days left to VOTE for our inspiring VIDEO that takes you behind the walls of San Quentin State Prison. Insight-…

Started by Veronica Balseiro

0 Feb 25

Prison Mindfulness Institute: new online site

Hi there everyone in the Prison Dharma Network! This summer Kate Crisp and I were hard at work rebuilding the Prison Dharma Network/Prison…

Started by Carter (PDN Admin)

0 Oct 4, 2012

Offering Meditation Instruction/Classes in Prison

Hi All, I've been doing some outreach for the past few years. All of my contacts have come from a single prisoner writing to the center wh…

Started by Christian Gregory

0 Aug 22, 2012

Wanted: Meditation teacher for Florida Prison Sangha

Dear PDN friends, I just received a letter from Chaplain Garry Kent at Franklin Correctional Institution in Carrabelle, Florida.  There is…

Started by Carter (PDN Admin)

0 Jan 17, 2012

Solitary confinement and economy

Hi - I'm a dharma mentor through PDN to a man at Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been in solitary confinement for many years. He wrote in…

Started by Pake Hall

0 Sep 6, 2011

Request for UK Contacts

Sara Woodford sent me a request: "I am researching a British documentary and am looking for people in the UK, working in prisons, who've in…

Started by Kate Crisp (PDN Director)

0 Aug 3, 2011

A Poem called Unconditional

Was introduced to this poem just a few nights ago at a local Vipassana session, thought to share it with you PDN Folks:   Unconditional by,…

Started by Stephen Conover

0 Jun 24, 2011

Christian Obstacles and Opportunities

Hi all. I have heard many stories of Christian-biased administrations and chaplains making it hard for dharma practice. I would like to kno…

Started by Bevan Suits

6 Jun 21, 2011
Reply by Stephen Conover

Do you think that prayer (Christian, Muslim, other, etc.) and meditation (Buddhist, Yoga, other, etc.) strengthen an individual in similar ways???? Is the ability of individuals to receive benefits fr

I guess that prayer is similar to meditation in that what you get out of it is dependent on how sincere and skillful you are at doing/pract…

Started by John C. Kimbrough

10 May 5, 2011
Reply by John C. Kimbrough

Setting up a Prison Dharma Group

Okay.   I will leave my question(s) as short and sweet as possible for the sake of drawing in as wide a range of assistance and advice as p…

Started by David Munro

16 Apr 19, 2011
Reply by Richard Blumberg

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