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Recidivism Prevention

"Be our voice out there Doc. Tell em we ain't animals." -An inmate speaking to Dr. Morse as he was being released from SCI. These men are not animals. The great majority of them long for a return to wholeness, for a connection with the divine. They are not sociopaths and do not have anti-social personalities. They are potentially productive citizens capable of redemption if only given the proper tools. They need mind training, be it in the form of meditation or the skill building tools commonly taught to business executives; this is just as important as housing and a job.

(Dozens of men asked Dr. Morse to be their voices when he returned to the community. Our society is wasting valuable and potential productive men who are currently being warehoused in prisons at a cost of $38,000 a year per man. In this era of mass incarceration, our society needs to connect with these men on a spiritual and transformative level so that they can return as productive members of society. He personally witnessed and even facilitated the transformation of addicts and violent felons through meditation and mind training techniques.)

INTERVIEW WITH KHALIL PETERKIN MS BY PAUL PERRY

"We have the tools, the knowledge, and the understanding to teach ex-offenders to not return to prison. We are not implementing what we know works. We have to do this to prevent these men from victimizing others, and to save their lives."

- Khalil Peterkin

Click here for entire interview with Khalil Peterkin

CLICK HERE FOR LINK TO DESCRIPTION OF A DOCUMENTARY FILM CURRENTLY IN PRODUCTION ABOUT THE WORK THAT KHALIL PETERKIN AND MELVIN MORSE ARE DOING.

CLICK HERE TO READ "AN UGLY SECRET"! THIS IS THE REAL STORY OF THE MEN THAT WE ARE LOCKING UP. THEY ARE WAR HEROS AND BROKEN MEN WITH SHATTERED LIVES, HARDLY ANTI-SOCIAL PERSONALITIES AND SOCIOPATHS.

Unlocking the transformative power of the near death experience through meditation. Therapeutic solutions for addiction and ex-offenders.

Using the scientific research on near death experiences as a counseling tool for grief counseling and to transform lives.

The Recidivism Prevention Group was founded by Melvin L Morse MD and Khalil Peterkin MS. Dr. Morse was an inmate at Sussex Correctional Institution for two years. Khalil Peterkin was the Director of Therapeutic Services for the Key Program for Addiction and Criminal Thinking, also at SCI. They spent a year together.

Both men discovered that the key to prevent recidivism comes from unlocking the power of spiritual transformation, which is within each of us, even the most severe violent felons, addicts, and other criminals. We both witnessed humbling transformation of the men, simply by working with them with regards to meditation, particularly the practice of tonglen. Tonglen is an ancient Tibetan practice in which the person meditates on the suffering that he or she has caused others. It is a powerful tool to unlock the inherent link to the divine that each of us has within.

"And how much youth was uselessly interred within these walls? One really has to tell the whole truth. the people here are exceptional. Why they might have been the most talented, the strongest of our people. But their tremendous strength is spent in vain. Abnormally, unjustifiably, irrevocably. But who is to blame?"

These words were written by Dostoevsky about the Russian prison system, but they could have been written by me. Sad beyond measure. Can our society really afford to waste its most valuable resource: The unused productive potential of young healthy men's lives as fathers, husbands, and wage earners.

Melvin Morse came to prison with a shattered ego and a heart brimming with bitterness and resentment. He learned spirituality and lessons of love from violent felons, murderers, addicts, home invaders, and other felons. He discovered that all us are on a spiritual journey, even those whom society has labeled criminals and sociopaths. Such men came from shattered childhoods and lives of extreme trauma. Hurt people hurt people. Yet when given the tools to change their thinking, these men embraced spirituality and transformation like thirsty sponges.
He spent the first twenty years of his life studying near death experiences from an intellectual point of view. While in prison, he directly learned his lessons of love and was transformed. Meditation and spiritual understandings are powerful tools to prevent recidivism.
Click here for a link to Dr. Morse's current prison project using what he learned in prison to prevent recidivism.

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