Meditation group meeting at Baltimore City Detention Center.

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.

Florida prison effort of the Kwan Um School of Zen.

A nonsectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners, prison volunteers, and correctional workers. An affiliate of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship.

Initiates Buddhist meditation groups in US prisons and jails.

Prison Dharma Support system of the Buddhist Relief Mission.

Jarvis Jay Masters is a widely-published African-American Buddhist writer on San Quentin's Death Row. A growing international movement is seeking to overturn his wrongful conviction.

Serves spiritual and educational needs in prisons.

A non-sectarian Buddhist support network for prisoners, prison volunteers and correctional workers.

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.

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.

Organisation representing Buddhism in the prison service.