TPRF Real Stories

PEP Manager Sherry Weinstein shares an interesting story about the introduction of the Peace Education Program at San Quentin State Prison in California. This is a story about not giving up and showing your humanity. There is a nurse named Sue Patrick, who has worked at San Quentin State Prison for [...]

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Sherry Weinstein has been TPRF’s Manager of the Peace Education Program for the past two years. In last week’s post, we explored the dynamic expansion of the PEP program in 2012. In part two of this update, Sherry provides a detailed look at new programs developing around the world plus TPRF’s [...]

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Sherry Weinstein has been TPRF’s Manager of the Peace Education Program for the past two years. In this two-part report, Sherry brings us up to date on the dramatic expansion of the program during 2012 and the TPRF plan for continued growth in 2013. What do some inmates in Zonderwater, South [...]

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On Friday, November 16, 2012, Prem Rawat addressed the inmates at Zonderwater Maximum Security Correctional Facility in South Africa. The event had a powerful effect on the inmates, who were keen to express their appreciation. Please Note: Photos from Zonderwater Prison are not available at this time.  Mark When I heard [...]

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Texas prison officials recently invited a unique group of volunteers to offer a presentation of the Peace Education Program (PEP) at the annual meeting of the Texas Community Service Association (TCSA) in San Antonio, Texas. This association is comprised of probation and parole officers and other Criminal Justice professionals from around [...]

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Parolees Enroll in Peace Education Classes in Oxnard, CA Chantal Berclaz and Peter King are two of the volunteers facilitating the PEP curriculum now available to parolees in Oxnard, California. Upon their release from prison, parolees are required to attend a resource meeting where presentations are made by several groups for the [...]

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Neva Ingalls is a certified yoga therapist with Yoga Alliance and director of Inner DomainYoga teacher training program. Neva is a 55-year-old mother with thirty years of experience in dance as a healing art, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Vinyasa, Raja and Tantra Yoga.  She has taught in Europe and the United States. Her [...]

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After the event in Ezeiza Women’s Prison last April, Prem Rawat wanted to give the inmates a special lunch as a gift. Marcela Isaurralde is one of the volunteers who helped plan the celebration. This is her account of the lunch which took place on Monday, July 23, 2012. When we arrived at the [...]

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Candice Wilmore is retired from her 9-5 job, but she stays active with her small booking company that hires musicians, many of them from the Jazz genre. Candice spent most of her working life in retail sales and management. She was often involved in areas related to promotion and public relations with [...]

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The performance was already underway when we arrived by taxi at the Felt Club, a modern looking but otherwise nondescript venue in the Quartere San Lorenzo district of Rome this past Friday (June 22) evening. Our host, Loredana La Rotonda, found me in the lobby, family in tow, trying to identify [...]

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