Our Programs
Liberation Prison Project’s goal is to make Buddhist advice, books and materials available to people in prison.
“Our aim isn’t to make people Buddhists; it’s to help them develop their human potential,” says Ven. Robina. “As Lama Yeshe would say, human beings do have power. We have the power to change our lifestyles, change our attitudes, change our habits.”
Through correspondence, free books and materials, publications, correspondence courses, teaching in prisons, supporting prison chaplains, libraries and other Buddhist prison projects, as well as offering legal, parole and post-prison advice and support, every day the prison project responds to the needs of hundreds of prisoners around the world.
At any given moment the project’s two hundred staff, teachers and volunteers worldwide look after the spiritual needs of hundreds of prisoners – mainly in the U.S., Australia, Spain, Mexico – but also in Scotland, Thailand, Namibia and South Africa.
Last year in the U.S. and Australia – where the project has been active since 1996 and 2000 – twenty thousand books were offered to people in nine hundred U.S. prisons and forty-five Australian institutions; the project also supported the work of ninety prison chaplains in both countries, sixteen other Buddhist prison projects throughout the U.S. and four non-Liberation Prison Project monks and nuns in Australia.
In Spain, where the project started in 2006, five volunteers are now teaching in three prisons outside of Madrid; and in Mexico, where the project also started in 2006, forty volunteers are currently teaching in eight prisons across Mexico – in Aguascalientes, Guadalajara, Morelia, Mexico City and Cozumel
Diana Volunteers visiting Prisons in AZ.
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