September 2010 Blog Posts (12)
Volunteer opening for teaching every other Monday morning at Suffolk County House of Correction
I've been sharing the work with someone who is now moving on to teach at a state prison.
The House of Correction is one of Boston’s county jails and is a minimum security… Continue
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on September 27, 2010 at 4:57pm — No Comments
Real Soutions for Ending Prison Rapes
Sex and power -- forces rampant in our prison system, thwarted and twisted by the jail culture. Lock up large numbers of the same gender and the frustrated sexual energy is palpable.
Likewise, in jail everyone -- wardens, correctional officers, inmates -- wants
power, fights for it, manipulates for it, in a place where everyone is made…
Added by David Chura on September 22, 2010 at 2:11pm — 1 Comment
The "anti-immigrant" prison industry connection
Added by Gregory Chamberlin on September 17, 2010 at 9:20am — 1 Comment
Drawings
Added by Jared Beekman on September 14, 2010 at 3:49pm — 2 Comments
Poetic Justice Project
Added by Fleet Maull on September 13, 2010 at 7:49pm — No Comments
African prison chaplains learn about Canadian jails
Added by Fleet Maull on September 13, 2010 at 4:50pm — No Comments
African prison chaplains learn about Canadian jails
Added by Fleet Maull on September 13, 2010 at 4:50pm — No Comments
African prison chaplains learn about Canadian jails
African prison chaplains learn about Canadian jails
Written by Michael Swan, The Catholic Register…
Added by Fleet Maull on September 13, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments
Incarcerated Education: Why Teach the Hard to Reach
Over any teacher’s career—in my case, 26 years of teaching high school English to at-risk teenagers, the last 10 of those years in an adult county jail—you get asked lots of questions. Some about the topic
you’re teaching; others, well, it’s hard to know where they come from.
But there’s one question I heard a lot, most frequently from my jail
students, “Why don’t you teach in a real school?”
This usually happened when a lesson went well and a kid…
ContinueAdded by David Chura on September 13, 2010 at 11:48am — No Comments
Let Go and Relax
In mind's basic nature, let go and relax.
In mind's nature, clarity-emptiness, let go and relax.
In mind's nature, openness and spaciousness, let go and relax.
All agitation is peace.
In this peaceful nature, let go and relax.
Let go and relax, and then look nakedly.
Look nakedly, and let go and relax.
There is nothing to look at and no one looking.
Nevertheless there is an appearance of someone looking…
ContinueAdded by Fleet Maull on September 10, 2010 at 2:41pm — 1 Comment
Contemplative Care: A Training Retreat for Chaplains, Psychologists, Social Workers and Volunteers
Join me for this Contemplative Care retreat and training at the Upaya Institute in Santa Fe, NM, a uniquely beautiful and restful retreat center and sacred space with some of the best locally grown, organic food on the planet. We will explore in depth what it means to bring the mind and wisdom of contemplation and meditation… Continue
Added by Fleet Maull on September 7, 2010 at 7:57pm — No Comments
Anyone in the LA area interested in helping a Buddhist group at the state prison in Lancaster, CA?
"We have a Buddhist program at this prison, but, we don't have any Buddhist sponsors to come into the prison and teach us. So, if the Dharmanetwork can have some contact with a Buddhist practitioner from the Los Angeles, Lancaster or Bakersfield area; this way, we can ask them to volunteer a day ( once a week) inside of the prison.
Los Angeles is only 45 minutes from this prison.
Lancaster only a… Continue
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on September 1, 2010 at 4:08pm — 5 Comments
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