Carter (PDN Admin)'s Blog – June 2008 Archive (3)

From KC Walpole: News From Five day retreat at Gadsden



Greetings:



Hope everyone is doing well. We just finished our second five day MBSR prison retreat this month at a women’s prison, It was in Gadsden, Florida which is about 40 or so miles west of Tallahassee. It is a CCA prison and I have to say that all things considered, we got a tremendous amount of support from the entire staff that we came in contact. This was their first five day retreat and there were a host of unknowns but they… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 17, 2008 at 12:46pm — No Comments

From KC Walpole



Greetings:



Hope everyone is doing well. We have been doing MBSR programs with five day retreats at Lowell CI for 18 months now. It is so easy to start thinking in terms of cycles and numbers and to forget that we are dealing with human beings that want nothing other than to get a meaningful life. It is so easy to let them all blur it all together into a meaningless mass of statistics.

This whole effort is about helping one person… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 10, 2008 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Back to School: A Guide to Continuing Your Education after Prison

FROM: Prisoner Reentry Institute



We are pleased to announce the updated design of Back to School: A Guide to Continuing Your Education after Prison, drafted with support from the United States Department of Education. Many thanks to Nicole Lindahl and Anna Crayton, our new Deputy Director of Research, for their leadership in developing the guide. Back to School is intended to serve as a national resource guide for currently and formerly incarcerated individuals planning to pursue or… Continue

Added by Carter (PDN Admin) on June 10, 2008 at 3:30pm — No Comments

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