Sentences with phrase «experiences as a prison»

One of my experiences as a prison chaplain provides a vivid illustration of this.

Fifty years ago, his chilling experiences as a prison psychologist led Robert Hare on a lifelong quest to understand one of humanity's most fascinating — and dangerous — disorders.

Besides O'Connell, the film's greatest strength is the screenplay by Jonathan Asser, who based it on his own experiences as a prison psychotherapist.

Not exact matches

As I look back, I see how prison taught me more about myself than almost any other experience I've faced.

I used those lessons and my prison experience as the launch pad for my current success.

But as he prepared to leave prison at the end of his sentence, he promised fellow inmates that he would not forget them or his experience there, his biography says.

But, in my job now, and it's not just because it's prison — the health service, and any big organisation would be the same — there is red tape and bureaucracy which can be quite stifling, and to me there seems to be a wonderful degree of freedom in the church, as I have been lucky enough to experience it.

With the growing prison population in many western countries, fathering from prison is emerging as a further significant context in which to understand the contemporary experience of fathers in families.

These needs may be linked (but are not limited) to drug or alcohol dependencies; severe mental health problems; experiences of domestic violence, institutional experiences, particularly local authority care and prison); involvement in sex work; and participation in «street culture» activities, such as begging, street drinking, and street - level drug dealing or migrant status.

The initiative intends to develop a greater understanding of homeless people who have to cope with multiple problems in their lives, such as drug or alcohol dependencies, severe mental health problems and institutional experiences, such as prison or long term hospital stays.

Actress and activist Julia Steele Allen plays Sara Foneseca, or Mariposa, as she is referred to in the play, and uses Mariposa's own words to express her experiences in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at a women's prison in California.

Disgraced former MP Chris Huhne has described prison as a «humbling and sobering experience» after he and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce were released from prison.

As a result, it argued, the environment in private prisons is generally less safe than in publicly - run prisons, where prison officers on average have more experience.

There are 2.5 million people incarcerated today in the United States, and while it's rare for the experiences of these people to be given a public viewing such as Mariposa provides, public demands to reform prison conditions and to end mass incarceration are growing.

During his time in jail, his approach to life changed — leading him to live as a monk for three years and then share his experiences with the world (chronicled in his popular book, Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons From a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom).

«Prison Yoga Project grew out of my experience with hundreds of prisoners — teaching yoga and mindfulness and as a staff facilitator of victim / offender education, violence prevention and emotional literacy.

James took on several years of experience as a facilitator of victim / offender education, violence prevention and emotional literacy classes for prisoners which informed his work with prisoners and the eventual founding of Prison Yoga Project.

Prisoners will experience mandatory enjoyment from delousing stations as well as free prison tattoos and head - shaves.

His next game, the prison - break drama A Way Out, flips that concept completely; it can only be played as a two - person cooperative experience, and early looks show it's taking an innovative approach to how multiplayer stories are presented.

The story is based on the experiences of Jonathan Asser (as a prison therapist; which is one of the main focuses of the film.

That last would be the one thing that can cure the headache brought on by a temporal displacement of the kind experienced by Agent J (Smith) when a hostile alien, Boris the Beast (Jemaine Clement as a gnarly stentorian) escapes from his lunar prison and gets a do - over, as it were, thanks to an illegal time machine.

In the last couple of years, he's gone from the romantic lead in About Time to Konstantin Levin in Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Anna Karenina; there's his leading role in the forthcoming Star Wars Episode VII; and there was the recent Calvary, in which he had a cameo as a creepy serial killer enduring a prison visit from a priest played by his father, Brendan, an experience he found «really cool».

As much a physical role as an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centurAs much a physical role as an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centuras an emotional one, Gadon's portrayal of Marks shows not only a dogged determination to master a difficult character, but also a willingness to tangibly experience the gritty realities of life as a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth centuras a maid and prison inmate in the middle of the nineteenth century.

There have been many films about the prison experience, but Nicolas Winding Refn's mannered biopic is the first to examine its incarcerated subject not as a monster or a victim, but rather as an artist — and one who truly suffers for his art, whether through regular beatings or long stints in solitary.

As follow - up to his touching yet grungy romance Tonight, You're Mine, English director David Mackenzie has tackled a script based on the experiences of voluntary prison therapist Jonathan Asser.

Depending on students» backgrounds of experience, sometimes students «hear» words like prism and associate this term as prison.

But as Catherine opens herself to new experiences, James's life becomes a prison, walled off by a truth he feels unable to share.

Ranging from London clubs to teeming prisons, from a lost century to the modern age, this novel is a panoramic revelation of things we thought we knew or else had no clue of, as well as a gripping exploration of what goals drive us toward whatever lies in wait — an experience resounding with issues, no less relevant today, of crime and spirituality; of identity and nationality; of what we think, what we believe and what we can prove.

Mike Claymore is a truck driver with past experience working for the Correctional Service of Canada as a prison guard.

But, to experience Genoa at its most enchanting, wander around the tangle of narrow alleyways named «Carruggi» which unfurl behind the port and lead to impressive palaces like the Palazzo di San Giorgo, formerly one of Europe's first banks and before that a prison for Venetian captives such as Marco Polo.

The prison closed in 1923, and was reopened as a radio station, so the interesting Radio Museum Experience is also on - site.

I guess it would be closer to experiencing prison as a wealthy white - collar criminal or mafia figure: behind bars, with all the luxuries and etiquette of fine society.

Within this large cardboard prison was the new MadCatz officially licensed Ghost Recon gear they had sent in for review: a pretty looking controller and, more importantly, a 7.1 surround sound headset from Tritton that promised a fantastic audio experience for Ghost Recon: Future Solder and for every other game as well.

You'll start in prison and players will experience scenarios in different ways, with protagoniste Leo and Vincent having to work together as well to succeed.

A human story set in a virtual world — Experience a dark story as the Go - Home Club does whatever it takes to escape the digital prison known as Mobius.

I was intrigued by the escape and survive type of mechanic as well as the co-operative experience as you and a friend work together in a bid to find A Way Out of prison.

She has described it as «a game about prisons, both real and imaginary», and this was very much my experience.

Earn experience points by; taking part in reform programs, digging tunnels, creating a crew or hitting the gym and then plough those points into new skills such as the ability to swim across water, sabotage machinery, pick locks or bribe members of the prison staff.

In this episode the duo discuss the recent news about a unified windows experience across console and PC, as well as the games Prison Architect, Dungeon of the Endless, GTA 5 and Fable Legends (before the recent news about its cancellation), amongst the usual silly banter you'd expect.

Using aerial views of prison complexes as a point of reference, she extracts colors (blues in particular), demarcation lines, and other fragments that touch on the experience of visiting her father in various prisons over the past 19 years.

At a time when a new generation of abstract artists experiences the grids of Mondrian not as spiritual threshholds but as prison bars, the exhibition reminds us what was at stake when a handful of artists in different parts of Europe first painted without reference to the external world.

The Miracle of the Rose is Wyn Evans's homage to the Jean Genet prison chronicle that details confinement and sublimation as bodily experience.

This year's artistic crop tackles themes including The New Orleans Experience, Seeing Oneself in the Other, The South, Crime and Punishment, The Carnivalesque, as well as issues of the prison - industrial complex and gentrification.

The viewer finally experiences it the way the painter must: as playroom, as production site, as hideout and as prison.

Meth manufacture and distribution are serious drug offenses that require experienced legal representation in order to reduce the damage such as jail time or a state prison commitment.

Her previous experience includes serving as a law clerk for the American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project and a legal intern for the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General.

But as you can imagine (or maybe you've personally experienced) prisons have rules for what visitors may bring with them into visits.

In an article that appears in the March 30 issue of The New Yorker, Gawande's article, «Hellhole,» examines the routine and rampant use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and concludes, «all human beings experience isolation as torture.»

Her interest in restorative justice was ignited while studying Sociology at Queen's University (B.A. Hons), at which point she was volunteering her time as a tutor with Frontier College's Prison Literacy Initiative — an experience that deepened her sense of compassion, gratitude and freedom.

The exclusively co-op experience looks to take full advantage of the playstyle, telling the story of two convicts as they escape prison by working together.