Fleet Maull: Waking Up in Prison

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Fleet Maull: Waking Up in Prison

Prisons of stone and iron may hold the body for long and painful years in darkness, but they cannot shut out the light of truth from the truth-loving soul; they cannot destroy the peace of the dutiful spirit.

- Hubbard Winslow -

Fleet Maull: Waking Up in Prison

Fleet Maull founded Prison Dharma Network in 1989 while serving a 14.5 year mandatory-minimum sentence for drug smuggling at a maximum security federal prison medical facility. He led a twice weekly meditation group in the prison chapel for 14 years and also helped start the first inside prison hospice program and provided daily care to dying prisoners until his release. In 1991, he founded National Prison Hospice Association, catalyzing a national prison hospice movement that now includes more than 75 hospice programs in state and federal correctional facilities in the United States. Fleet recalled in a recent interview, "Most prisoners are doing everything they can not to experience being there. They consider their time in prison down time, as if it doesn't really count...People are trying to kill time. But I didn't want to throw away fourteen years of my life. I was determined to be present, to learn everything I could from this, to use this as an opportunity to wake up." He shares more from his journey in this in-depth interview. { read more }

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Watch this 5-minute video on the valuable work being done through the GRIP program (Guiding Rage Into Power) at San Quentin, a maximum security prison. { more }


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