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mental illness in prisons
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talking to university students
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- Volunteer, Pen Pal
- My Prison Dharma Group or Organization
- Have worked with people on the inside and one through the last three years of his sentence and through to release. Volunteering at Maplehurst CC (Milton, Ontario, Canada).
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- Born, educated, live and expect to die in Toronto
Day job is communications/PR, mostly in health sector
BA in East Asian and Religious Studies, U Toronto
Plodding through my MA in Religious Studies, UNISA (thanks to everyone at PDN for inspiring and helping me!)
Practicing in Zen tradition for about 6 years
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Sitting Inside
Sit Down and Shut Up
Hardcore Zen
Anger (Thich Nhat Hanh)
Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away
The Heart Sutra
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Prisons vs. hospitals
Posted on January 10, 2009 at 10:37am 1 Comment 0 Favorites
ratio of prisons to Americans 1:63,000
ratio of hospitals to Americans 1:53,000
The difference of course is that (in the absence of a health care system worthy of the name) prisons are accessible to all Americans.
Odd but indicative of national priorities I suppose.
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I would be happy to share info with you about what I am doing (and would be interested in knowing more about your research). You can reach me at imathias@magma.ca
Irene
416/926-9296
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I am just beginning a five-day sesshin, but we could talk further about a time/date after that. Can you get back to me next week?: bshoultz@syr.edu is my email.
Jikyo
Good to see your posts. Take a look in my book at the discussion about "just showing up" practice. Sometimes we just show up and go through all the bother of getting in only to have no one show. That's how all groups start. Just keep showing up and someone will show up to check you out. If you appear ok--as opposed to smelling unsavory--word will get out and before long you'll have a group. Look at it as a nice break from your routine.
/Kobai
Glad to meet you. I typically work through the chaplain, Nick Swirski and, to a lesser degree, Frances Pedder (the volunteer coordinator... I guess you've met her). Communications are generally OK but I find that they are so busy that things fall to the side unless you are persistent. Seeing Nick work I would think that only a little bit of his time is with a computer; most of it looks like hands-on stuff at the prison. If you want, I can mention your DVD to him. Sarah G. here at PDN mentioned a video called Dhamma Brothers, which might also make good viewing. Here's the link. http://www.dhammabrothers.com/ I am trying to get a copy.
Paul
My name is Dennis Froese and I am in London, ON. I had made contact with the Dep. Supt. Programs at Maplehurst. We were to have a meeting with him, the volunteer co-ordinator and perhaps the chaplain to discuss bringing a DVD program called "Words of Peace" into Maplehurst. The day before the meeting I got a email postponing due to an urgent situation which had developed. A couple of weeks has now passed and although they were going to contact me with some other perspective meeting dates, nothing has happened.
What has your experience been in regards to communicating with the administrators there and who have you primarily communicated with?
My email is dennisfroese@gmail.com if you would like to contact me outside of this forum.
Thanks for your comments.
On another note, I spoke to a group of students at the University of Toronto today on prison dharma. Interested crowd (I think) and some good questions. Just wanted to get the word out.
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