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From: xxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Prison visits As It Is: Hi, you have asked an
interesting question, The Process did a lot of Visitation work within State
Hospitals, Homes for the Elderly and in some cases , yes, Prison visits. Not
all Chapters were involved in Prison visits it depended on the individual State
requirements but basically, we would go in to the Prisons and talk with
prisoners about The Process and how the prisoner managed to land in his
circumstances, and hopefully we were able to enlighten them to a way that would
avoid the situation from happening again. On the occasion we went in to see
prisoners who received no visitors or had very little outside contact. If my
memory serves me the San Fransisco Chapter(which closed early), Boston and
Chicago Chapters were the main Chapters involved in prison visits. Our primary
aim was to show that the prisoners were still humans, and deserved contact with
the world and a choice of religious beliefs, we were not there to convert
anyone but just to show compassion. Since our principle belief is that Love is
the way to Salvation and to the End of Conflict, and that our own internal
conflicts must first be overcome, it is logical to asume that the prisoners had
major internal conflicts to overcome and that if they wanted we were there to
help guide them, and show them how to overcome the conflicts within oneself.
Now as to which Prisons were visited I would not be able to say, not because I
don't want to but due to the lack of that knowledge and lack of memory. So Be It Br.
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