Below are the best resources we could find on Incarceration and transformation.
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Ron Jenkins, a professor at Wesleyan University, created a program in which inmates study and perform parts of Dante’s “Inferno.”
Incarcerated in San Quentin at the age of 19 for armed robbery, Jarvis Masters was accused four years later of participating in a conspiracy that resulted in the death of a prison guard.
In September 2019, Jarvis Jay Masters exhausted his final state appeal. The Buddhist author and death-row inmate at San Quentin had a hearing before the California Supreme Court in Los Angeles and did not prevail in getting the California appeals court to re-examine his case.
Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men who paid his mother for sex.
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Like a lot of people with newfound interest in Buddhist meditation, Jarvis Jay Masters struggled at first to sit still and quiet his mind.
Watch Michael Boatman, narrator of THE BUDDHIST ON DEATH ROW by David Sheff, talk about what he learned while recording the audiobook.
In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.
Twenty male inmates in a Kentucky prison form an unlikely Shakespearean acting troupe.
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