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Zen Practice for Inmates
Meditation training as an alternative to conventional sentencing. During the past year a "scholarship" fund has been created to assist serious inmate practitioners in attending a monastic training period on parole or at release from prison. The Engaged Zen Foundation intends to establish a monastic-based alternative sentencing facility where offenders may serve out sentences in a highly disciplined Zendo atmosphere.
Shambhala Prison Community
http://www.shambhala.org/int/spc.html
Initiates Buddhist meditation groups in US prisons and jails.
Shambhala Prison Community
http://www.shambhalaprisoncommunity.org/
Serves spiritual and educational needs in prisons.
Prison Dharma Support
http://www.greatliberation.org/activities/prisondharma/pds.htm
A non-sectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners, prison volunteers and correctional workers.
Prison Dharma Network
http://www.prisondharmanetwork.org/
A nonsectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners, prison volunteers, and correctional workers. An affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.
National Buddhist Prison Sangha - Zen Mountain Monastery Prison Program
http://www.mro.org/smr/prisonsangha/
Volunteer organization. Depending on their experience with practice, as well as their time and personal resources, these volunteers may provide support through correspondence, visits, and the creation and leading of practice groups.
Buddhist Relief Mission
http://www.brelief.org/prison.htm
Prison Dharma Support system of the Buddhist Relief Mission.
Buddhist Inmate Sangha
http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/bis/index.html
An interfaith group of Buddhists devoted to connecting prisoners who desire to learn about Buddhism with pen pals of their respective faiths. Provides books on Buddhism and Eastern Philosophy to inmates and prison libraries upon request.
Angulimala - the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy Organisation
Organisation representing Buddhism in the prison service.