All Blog Posts Tagged 'youth' (4)

Can Court Mandated Yoga and Meditation Keep Kids Out of Prison?

By Beth Navon for Good.is  Feb. 13, 2013

The Lineage Project’s mission is to keep young people, ages 11 to 24, out of the juvenile/criminal…

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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on February 14, 2013 at 2:30pm — No Comments

New Demographics in Socially Engaged Buddhism

from "Why Guerrilla Theater? A Behind the Scenes Look at 'Who Speaks?'" by Dawn for Turning Wheel

Our recent event “What’s Up With Engaged Buddhism?” started because I was in a total…

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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on July 5, 2012 at 2:13pm — No Comments

MBA Project’s Mindfulness Training for Incarcerated Youth Yields Effective Results

PDN Member Project ~ Khyentse Foundation, March 2012

Khyentse Foundation’s grant to the Mind Body Awareness Project (MBA) supported ground-breaking pilot programs that treat stress, anxiety, and insomnia with mindfulness-based practices. The programs also…

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Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on March 26, 2012 at 11:30am — 3 Comments

Life Terms for Minors are "Cruel and Unusal Punishment"

There are 109 inmates serving life sentences without parole for non-homicide crimes they committed when they were 18 or younger. Some, put behind bars when they were 13 or 14, have been locked up for twenty or thirty years.



Those 109-- minors then, adults now in their prime, or at least they should be, if they weren't facing a slow, cruel death in jail-- are a part of something that is uniquely American. According to Amnesty International, the United States is the only country that… Continue

Added by David Chura on November 13, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

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