Kate Crisp (PDN Director)'s Blog – September 2007 Archive (6)

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Action Steps for Burma

from the Facebook Support group:



International day of Action

Contact: Burma Campaign UK

suki.dusanj@burmacampaign.org.uk

We are marching in solidarity with the monks and ordinary people of Burma who are risking their lives for freedom and democracy.

We appeal to the religious and secular communities across the world not to look the other way while the people of Burma cry out for international support.

Saturday 6th October

12 noon – worldwide

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Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 28, 2007 at 12:49pm — No Comments

Life sentence

from the Boston Globe....

It's a government program whose impact rivals the New Deal. It pushes whole communities out of society's mainstream. It costs tens of billions of dollars a year. Scholars are just beginning to understand

how prison is reshaping the country.



Click here to read article.....…

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Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 24, 2007 at 12:59pm — No Comments

Report from Recent Florida Prison Retreat





from KC Walpole:



Today was the first day of our third MBSR retreat. At one point this afternoon, there were 57 ladies on the mats and in total silence. About 2/3ds of the room had never sat a retreat and the room was silent and still. The number is truly strange because Lowell CI has a high turnover rate because of its function as an initial entry point for female inmates in North Florida that are farmed out to other prisons… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 18, 2007 at 6:03pm — No Comments

THE EVENT, The Art of Being An Adult In Relationships

with Purna Steinitz & Fleet Maull, October 26-28



Location: 63rd Street Farm, Boulder, CO

Call 303-544-5923 or REGISTER ONLINE HERE TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE:



for more info click here....



The Event is an intensive transformational weekend training in which we realize our… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 13, 2007 at 4:24pm — No Comments

PDN in NYT Today

Staring at Death and Finding Their Bliss, New York Times, Sept 13, 2007

The inmates’ letters started to arrive at Jenny Phillips’s home in Concord, Mass., during the summer of 2002. For five years they’ve kept coming — 200 at last count, written by 14 men serving time in the

Donaldson Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison with a

death-row capacity for 24 inmates outside Birmingham,Al.… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 13, 2007 at 1:33pm — 2 Comments

Texas governor commutes death sentence in rare act



DALLAS (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry commuted the death sentence of a man hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal

injection on Thursday, a rare occurrence in America's most active

capital punishment state.





The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles made the recommendation in the case of Kenneth Eugene Foster, who was convicted and sentenced to death…

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Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on September 13, 2007 at 1:29pm — No Comments

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