[Buddha-l] solitary confinement

[jkirk]

True--I should've said I wasn't factoring in meditation programs. Reminded 
of the film about the meditation programs taught to prisoners in India, and 
the movie about it, _Doing Time,
Doing Vipassana_.
JK
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From: "Dh. Suvarnaprabha" <suvanna at sfbuddhistcenter.org>
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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2006 12:36 PM
Subject: [Buddha-l] solitary confinement


> >...solitary......that's cruel (if common rather than unusual) punishment.
> It does not have a chance of any shade of reformation.
>
> I think being solitary does have some potential for reformation if they at
> least could have some quality reading material!
> http://users.aristotle.net/~anna/news/nytart.html
> Cheers, Suvarnnaprabha (who teaches med. at the county jail and has been
> lurking around here for a while...)
>
> :   :   :
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