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Our Mission

To transform prisons and communities
through compassionate action

Step Inside The Circle

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Step Inside the Circle explores the significant correlation between childhood trauma and the lives of the men and women who are incarcerated. Honor Yard, the second PSA, follows Step Inside the Circle below.

If there is no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa

Our Projects

What we're up to at Compassion Prison Project!

Prison and Community Outreach

Compassion Prison Project (CPP) focuses on bringing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma awareness to prisons and communities.
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Create and Facilitate a Circle

Compassion Prison Project focuses on bringing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma awareness to prisons and communities. To that end, CPP has developed a two-track curriculum and training to be used both within prisons and outside in local communities.
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The Giving Back Project

The men at Kern Valley State Prison and Lancaster Prison in Southern California spearheaded The Giving Back Project in early 2020. This initiative identifies creative ways for people who are incarcerated to give back to the communities with which they are connected.
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Letter Writing Campaign

The Compassion Prison Project is developing a letter writing campaign that matches people who have completed the Step Inside the Circle and ACE awareness inside a prison facility with a community letter writer.
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Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

Pema Chodron

Donate Today

CPP is a not-for-profit, grassroots-based organization. Big changes are made in small steps and we value the amount of every donation. Your contribution directly supports CPP's projects to achieve its mission to transform prisons and communities through compassionate action. All donations are tax deductible. Please consider donating today.

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