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Mindfulness program for ex offenders (Need PDN sangha's input!!!)

Hello, friends!    To explain the synchronicity of events leading up to this would demand too much time, so lemme sum up.  Long story short…

Started by Aaron Quinley

24 Sep 18, 2011
Reply by Aaron Quinley

A possible post release resource in California

Hi PDN Folks,   will post more re this in the near future, but for now I want to let you know while recently picking up a Dharma Friend to…

Started by Stephen Conover

6 Aug 3, 2011
Reply by Moreland Nicholson

A Winter's Home

The pic above is where I lived this winter.  It is also what inspired me to start an outreach for homeless buddhists.  That water in the b…

Started by Stephen Conover

1 Jun 12, 2011
Reply by Pake Hall

From Prison to Homelessness, to Dharma

Losing everything at age 50 when sent to prison for the first and only time, led to my being homeless for a number of years.  From this exp…

Started by Stephen Conover

0 May 12, 2011

Do Residential Dharma Centers have an ongoing responsibility to prisoners served?

So I have a question... (which I hope might stir up some discussion)   It seems a very 'nice' thing to do to go in & be with prisoners,…

Started by EG

29 Apr 19, 2011
Reply by Elizabeth Norcross

Buddhist Prisoner who started Folsom Sangha, being relased on parole in Berkeley

One of the members of our Folsom Prison Sangha will be paroled soon. He is from Berkeley and he said he will return there. He is the reason…

Started by Diane Wilde

21 Dec 6, 2010
Reply by EG

Re-Entry information

I am a counselor in a Max facility in NYS and a graduate student in clinical psychology. I have/am working to create a therapy program to i…

Started by Stephen Flynn

4 Jul 10, 2009
Reply by chris

Integrating Inmates When They Get Out

The inclusion on non-inclusion of former inmates has become a really hot and contested issue in our Sangha, especially those with sex offen…

Started by Gary Koan Janka

11 Jan 14, 2009
Reply by Gary Koan Janka

Sex After Getting Out: Too Many Expectations?

One of the first things we think about after leaving the pen is when we're going to have sex. It's is usually up there with the first thing…

Started by Idris Cox

5 Sep 14, 2007
Reply by Ekō (Joshua) Goldberg

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