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I’ve had the house to myself a lot this week because Paul has been in prison. Bill Karelis from the Shambhala Prison Community was up to do a three day Shambhala Training Level One at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem.

Prisons are very abstract to me. I’ve heard of them. I’ve seen them on TV. I don’t know anyone or have spent any amount of time with anyone who has actually done hard time.

pris·on

noun

A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention, especially persons convicted of crimes.

A place or condition of confinement or forcible restraint.

A state of imprisonment or captivity.

[Middle English, from Old French, alteration (influenced by Old French pris, taken) of Latin prēnsiō, prēnsiōn-, a seizing, from *prehēnsiō, from prehēnsus, past participle of prehendere, to seize.]

One man was doing 7 years because he threw his car keys at the chest of a cop. He contested it in court and was found guilty. Oregon law has a minimum sentence if you contest and thats what he got.