May 2011 Blog Posts (8)
Beyond Prisons-How to Stop Wasting Lives and Money
The United States locks up more people than any other country, but that hasn’t made us safer. The drug war jails thousands of nonviolent addicts. Taxpayers and poor communities lose as states slash social programs to pay for prisons. There’s a better way—compassion, not punishment; restoration, not isolation. It’s less costly, more humane—and it works.…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 31, 2011 at 8:39am — No Comments
Kandake House In Harlem, A Holistic Alternative To Jail For Women, Opens
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 27, 2011 at 10:40am — No Comments
Photos taken inside "California's Jam-Packed Prisons"
Added by Paul Harris on May 26, 2011 at 1:30am — 8 Comments
Prison leader profiles
Who better to describe what the prison environment is really like, and the challenges of managing within it, than those who experience it day in, day out?
-Misconceptions
-The environment
-The role of the Prison Service
-Key challenges
-Management…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 25, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments
Truth and Reconciliation in New York
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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 24, 2011 at 2:49pm — No Comments
Jail inmates rehabilitate mind, body with yoga
(PDN Member and Path of Freedom grad) Nancy Candea checks into Morris County Jail every Thursday afternoon, makes her way through security and gets escorted past the women’s cafeteria into a multipurpose athletic room.Dressed in black and barefoot, Candea, 49, pulls out a portable stereo and…
ContinueAdded by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on May 14, 2011 at 12:00pm — No Comments
America’s Most Isolated Federal Prisoner Describes 10,220 Days in Extreme Solitary Confinement
May 5, 2011
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 5, 2011 at 4:25pm — 2 Comments
Noise canceling, without headphones.
Roni Caryn Rabin: Studies have found that meditation helps prevent the recurrence of depression, perhaps by producing changes in parts of the brain associated with learning and anxiety. A new study suggests that meditation may modulate brain waves called alpha rhythms, which help regulate the transmission of sensory input from the surrounding environment. Harvard researchers randomly assigned 12 healthy adults to an eight-week course of training in meditation-based stress reduction or to a…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on May 4, 2011 at 11:19am — No Comments
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