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Prevention can very well be one of the best cures for reducing the soaring number of individuals who are being sent to prison. At The Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence located in Providence, Rhode Island, nonviolence training is taught to students, police officers, prison inmates, and community members. The mission of the

Select prisoners inside the compound of San Quentin State Prison can often be seen tending the 1,200 square foot organic flower garden within the medium-security yard. This is made possible by the Insight Garden Program in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison. The Insight Garden Program also teaches inmates hands-on classes that include landscaping, gardening,

Sheriff Joe Arpaio from Maricopa County in Arizona, is best known for his unique approach to housing and treating inmates in correctional facilities. One of his better known programs that he created is called the A.C.E. Posse – known as the Animal Cruelty Enforcement Posse. The program is designed to help reduce and eliminate animal

Finding some sense of inner peace while incarcerated can be nearly impossible. But for many inmates incarcerated in correctional facilities – from minimum to maximum security – learning Transcendental Meditation, known as TM, can bring profound and lasting change. Within the concrete walls of the Oregon State Correctional Institutions, prisoners who practice Transcendental Meditation are finding

According to the Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) one out of 100 Americans is in jail or prison with a total population of 2.3 million incarcerated people. Wow! Those are huge numbers! Life in prison creates a cycle  – commit a crime, go to prison, get released, commit a crime, go back to prison. This cycle

In 1995, a nonprofit organization called the Lionheart Foundation published a book titled “Houses of Healing: A Prisoner’s Guide to Inner Power and Freedom.” The purpose of the book was to help incarcerated men and women a rehabilitative resource to help them end destructive lifelong patterns of violence and addiction. Over 85,000 copies of this

Every year, thousands of prisoners are released from prison. These ex-offenders must face life in the “outside” world, which includes finding employment, housing and educational opportunities. These can be daunting tasks to someone who has been incarcerated. Impact Services Corporation is a Pennsylvania-based program that helps ex-offenders with some of these re-entry concerns. Impact Services

If you have a loved one or friend who is currently incarcerated in a Texas prison, the Inside Books Project is an all volunteer, non-profit organization that sends free books and educational material to prisoners throughout the state of Texas. Literacy rates can be low in the prison system, and the Inside Books Project is