Carter (PDN Admin)'s Blog – February 2012 Archive (6)
Women in Kenyan jail discover relaxing effects of yoga
By Shabtai Gold for monstersandcritics.com, Feb 11, 2012
Nairobi - Outside Nairobi's bustling centre and traffic jams, a group of women in striped white and black prison uniforms shuffle into a courtyard, where Margret the yoga teacher awaits them,…
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Goal of Life in Maximum Security: meet your new teacher
By Anneke Lucas for elephantjournal.com, Feb. 9, 2012
Goal of Life: Part 1
(reggae style)
Verse 1:
Updog, downdog, locust, cobraContinue
I am doing Hatha Yoga
Move over
Ignorance…
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Number of Older Inmates Grows, Stressing Prisons
By Tony Williams for The New York Times, January 26, 2012
The number of Americans in prison older than 55 is growing at a faster rate than the group’s share of the population at large, and many prisons are unprepared to provide them with health care, which can cost as much as nine…
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The Heartful Dodger
A charismatic ex-con lures at-risk kids away from violence.
By Alix Sharkey for DailyGood, Feb 2, 2012
One bitter night, in the rough end of New Haven, Connecticut, fifteen-year-old Vinny Ferraro and his friends were hanging out as usual by the projects, near the…
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Yoga at San Quentin
I could have been with monks in the Himalayas, surrounded by majestic mountain peaks
by Anneke Lucas, January 11, 2012 for ElephantJournal.com
When we entered the linoleum-tiled,…
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Jail superintendent: Compassion needs to be brought into the system
By Eric W. Dolan for The Raw Story - Monday, January 9, 2012
Richard Van Wickler, the Superintendent of the Department of Corrections in Cheshire Country, NH and member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, said in an interview that drug addicts should be shown compassion rather than jailed.
He…
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