August 2010 Blog Posts (5)

The Farm: Celebrating the Prison Hospice Volunteers at Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, August 27 & 28, 2010



Front Gate at "The Farm," -- Angola



I’d been driving through thick, tall forests that blanket either side of the two land state road with an almost haunted feeling when suddenly the front gate of the Louisiana…

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Added by Fleet Maull on August 31, 2010 at 9:00am — 4 Comments

Report from Rwanda: "The Power to Kill"

Jessica Cooley recently went to Rwanda to the Peacemaker Bearing Witness retreat and then back again a few months later to document "Rescuer Stories" This report is from her visit to the prison. Read more of her reports on the Peacemaker Institute site.



The Power to Kill by Jessica…
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Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on August 30, 2010 at 7:31am — No Comments

Tibetan monk in Thailand prison, needs pen pals, or visitors, also has Thangka painting for sale

Any Karma Yogis out there?

Let me share a story about a friend I met a few years back. Many years back while travelling Thailand I come to hear about the treatment of people in their prison systems, and after hearing the details and learning that could go visit a foreigner in prison by going on line and finding them through any embassy , it can be your own country or another. I then came to meet my friend Adrian Van Ommering , a Dutch/ Canadian given life in prison for drug smuggling, when… Continue

Added by Sequoia henning on August 13, 2010 at 12:39pm — 3 Comments

Prison Dharma Discussion at Socially Engaged Symposium

Yesterday we had a fabulous discussion at the Socially Engaged Symposium held at the Zen Peacemaker Farm in Montague Massachusettes. Over 30 people attended the group led by Fleet Maull & Kate Crisp (from PDN) and Melody Ermachild Chavis (Death Penalty Investigator in CA). It was so great to hear… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on August 12, 2010 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

Juvenile Crime: Translating the Language of Rage









I’ve done a number of interviews since publishing I Don’t Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine: Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup, and I find, like many authors, that I’m often asked the same questions. “I can answer them in my sleep,” I heard

one author grumble. I felt the same way until I started to really listen to the

questions and give them deeper thought.…

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Added by David Chura on August 1, 2010 at 3:24pm — No Comments

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