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National Weekend of Faith in Action Against the Death Penalty:
**Oct 21-23, 2005**
Amnesty USA's annual event, co-sponsored by BPF. Read more.
I.
Advocacy and Education
Advocacy, education, and networking activities to
mobilize people in the faith-based, Buddhist, and activist
communities, and the general public. The growing interest
in prisons means this is a ripe time to promote understanding
of the root causes of the current prison crisis, and to
work together for change. We have been focusing on resistance
to the death penalty and addressing youth and lifers'
issues.
1. The
Dharma and the Death Penalty
2. Moratorium
on Executions
3. Execution
Vigils
4. Justice for Youth (Juvenile Justice)
5.
Restorative Justice
6. Prison-Industrial Complex
II.
Death Penalty News
III.
Networking and Resources
IV.
Ministry and Training
Prison
Meditation Network's meditation and yoga program receives
Innovations in American Government Award!
Ministry helps individual prisoners
develop skills necessary to meet the everyday violence
in prison, and to lead productive and satisfying lives
while in prison and post-release. We co-sponsor the
Prison Meditation Network, which teaches meditation,
yoga, and journal writing in sixteen northern California
prisons (state and federal), jails, drug rehab, and
Drug Court/alternative sentencing programs.
V.
Correspondence
The Prison-Community Correspondence
Program communicates with hundreds of prisoners across
the United States. We distribute free dharma books and
subscriptions to our quarterly journal Turning Wheel to
almost 1,000 inmates. We also coordinate correspondence
between prisoners and interested Buddhist correspondents
(along with offering guidelines and mentoring for volunteer
correspondents). Additional information available includes:
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