Kate Crisp (PDN Director)'s Blog – December 2009 Archive (3)

12th MBSR Cycle 5 day retreat

Report from KC Walpole:

Greetings!



it has been a while since I speak and that is not my way. Had a series of calamities highlighted by a crashing of my email program in the middle of our quarterly five day MBSR retreat a Lowell CI. There was a lot of new aspects in this cycle and my sense is that they will serve the general knowledge base of PDN. It is the Christmas Holiday and I will try to keep this short and to the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on December 23, 2009 at 10:58am — No Comments

U.S. prison population headed for first decline in decades

The economy has states reconsidering whom to lock up, and for how long. Reforms in many state prisons and courts coincide with dropping nationwide crime rates. Associated Press

December 20, 2009



Dallas - The United States soon may see its prison population drop for the first time in almost four decades, a milestone in a nation that locks up more people than any other.



The inmate population has risen steadily since the… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on December 20, 2009 at 4:50pm — No Comments

PDN End of Year Matching Grant

Dear Prison Dharma Friend,

Happy Holidays!



Please help us finish off our 20th Anniversary Year with a bang and launch PDN into a new era of even greater transformative impact in the lives of prisoners and our society. Due to a generous matching grant from one of our foundation partners, all donations received by December 31, 2009 will be matched 100%. So you can double the transformative impact by making a year end… Continue

Added by Kate Crisp (PDN Director) on December 16, 2009 at 4:06pm — No Comments

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