Carter (PDN Admin)'s Blog Posts Tagged 'recidivism' (6)
Namaste: Doing yoga while doing time
Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 28, 2013 at 12:54pm — No Comments
San Quentin Prison Demo Day Gives Entrepreneurs Behind Bars A Second Chance
By Josh Constine for TechCrunch.com, February 22, 2013
Barbed wire and armed guards aren’t your typical intro to a startup pitch event. But today, San Quentin Prison hosted The Last Mile demo day featuring…
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Cornell Prison Education Program offers hope
By Michael Harris for The Ithaca Times, August 15, 2012
In 1995, the federal law — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act — dismantled higher education in prison by eliminating inmate eligibility for Pell Grants.
On June 5, however, the Auburn Prison, in conjunction with Cornell…
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Can Transcendental Meditation help rehabilitate prison inmates?
by Arielle Feldman for the Transcendental Meditation Blog, June 20, 2012
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) more than 2 million adults are incarcerated in federal and state…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 27, 2012 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment
Mental Health Alternatives in Prison
from RonArtest.com: Mental Health and World Issues, June 8, 2012
What do yoga mats and prisoners have in common? Both are in high demand. With an overcrowded prison population in the US, it is not shocking to find around 60-67% of inmates return to prison within 3 years of their release…
ContinueAdded by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 14, 2012 at 9:34am — 1 Comment
Prison SMART: Yoga Comes to Cook County Jail
by Yasmin Rammohan for Chicago Tonight, April 26, 2012
“Without tools to manage extra stress, there’s a high rate of recidivism [for inmates],” said Gabriella Savelli, National Coordinator of Prison SMART.
Prison SMART’s mission is "to make a life-transforming…
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- Cornell Prison Education Program offers hope
- Can Transcendental Meditation help rehabilitate prison inmates?
- Mental Health Alternatives in Prison
- Prison SMART: Yoga Comes to Cook County Jail
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- Prison SMART: Yoga Comes to Cook County Jail
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PMI's FREE Post-Release Community Meditation & Yoga Class
April 1, 2013 at 4:30pm to July 1, 2013 at 5:45pm – Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence
Prison Mindfulness Institute's FREE Post Release / Community Meditation and Yoga class at the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence: Every MONDAY, 4:30 - 5:45 with Richard Sylvester a…
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Prison Yoga Teacher Training
June 29, 2013 at 11am to June 30, 2013 at 6pm – California Institute of Integral Studies
The Prison Yoga Project (PYP) in collaboration with the Insight Prison Project is offering a special training at San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies (C.I.I.S.) for yoga teachers…
Organized by jennifer@insightprisonproject.org | Type: yoga, facilitator, training
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Yoga of Recovery Certificate Courses
August 4, 2013 to August 14, 2013 – Yoga Farm, Grass Valley, CA, USA
Yoga Alliance certification CEUs available Yoga of Recovery is the first comprehensive course to combine Ayurveda and Yoga with traditional recovery tools to offer a more holistic mind, body, spirit…
Organized by Durga Leela | Type: certificate, training, course
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Path of Freedom Webinar (Autumn)
September 9, 2013 at 7pm to September 26, 2013 at 9pm – Online
With Fleet Maull September 9 - 26 Six Sessions, (Mondays & Thursdays for three weeks) Hope you can join us! Hours for the training are: 7-9pm Eastern 5-7pm Mountain Time 4-6pm Pacific This progr…
Organized by Carter (PDN Admin) | Type: webinar
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