A one-week Meditation Intensive will be held at Snake River Correctional Institution, the prison where Buddhist Trime Persinger works as a chaplain, beginning this Sunday June 17. The weekthun will be led by Shastri Frank Ryan and will run from 8:00 AM to 8:20 PM each day. Over 50 inmates have registered for the Intensive.…

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site welcomes Guggenheim Fellow Judith Schaechter’s ambitious new work, The Battle of Carnival and Lent, to its 2012 artist installation program. These 17 stained glass windows are…

PDN Staff member Richard Sylvester represented us at a gathering that included a limited number of representatives from the Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Sikh communities, and was an opportunity to meet with representatives from a number of cabinet departments and agencies, including Dept of State, Dept of Homeland Security,…

Recently I downloaded and sampled 20 or so "Mindfulness" apps for my iPhone/iPad...here is a brief review of several that I think are stellar among the crowd.

Mindfulness Meditation from Mental Workout

No excuse for not meditating now...its right in your pocket. A modern way to learn and enjoy mindfulness meditation - and it's always there for your breaktime or outdoor practice. The 6 different-length mindfulness…

December 13th, 2011

By Rachel Signer

Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled that California prisons were…

from the Times of India

CHENNAI: Additional…

From BBC News:

17 November 2011 Last updated at 11:21 ET

A dozen inmates at a juvenile…

Beautiful slideshow of prison yoga.

From NPR: Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner.

But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty platform, his…

from the…

Photo from the recent webinar with Chris & Josh

Noah Levine and some of his closest friends started the Mind-Body Awareness in 2000-2001, an organization dedicated to working with at-risk youth. PDN recently hosted a webinar (an online teaching program) for folks who work…

Final online group meditation at end of Class #4.

We just completed Class 4 of our 7th Path of Freedom webinar training. This time 35 people are enrolled in the series. Participants attend a webinar with Fleet Maull once a week. Fleet delivers a talk and participants engage in…

Erich will be running the marathon this year, and he's hoping to raise money for the Prison Dharma Network.

Click here to support Erich's run.…

Sixty-nine-year-old Kinloch C. Walpole is the abbot of the Gateless Gate Zen Center. On July 7 he will set out on an 11,000-mile motorcycle trip across the US to give presentations about “Women and Children in the Jails and Prisons of the Nation.”

Long time contributor and member of PDN, Walpole…

The current issue of YES magazine features many many fascinating articles on all aspects of prisons today. 

Please check it out:

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(PDN Member and Path of Freedom grad)

Dressed in black and barefoot, Candea, 49, pulls out a portable stereo and…

Blog entry by Fleet Maull, PDN founder who led the April  Bearing Witness Rwanda Retreat

Today was quite different than the preceding three days of visiting genocide memorial sites.  This morning we visited a TIG prison farm and camp in the Bugesera district about an hour outside of Kigali.   Faced with prosecuting and imprisoning hundreds of thousands of accused genocide…