[Vnbiz] Vietnam hosts conference on prison management

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear and Shane, Thanh Thanh & CACC,

Thanks for the info, anh Shane and Thanh Thanh.  I imagine if we still have
lots of problems in the outside then we would have horrendous problems
inside prisons.

Prisons are the forgotten places.  No one outside really cares to even think
about them.

I happen to believe that we need to pay serious attention to prisons for a
number of reasons:

1.  As a matter of humanity, prisons are the most unhappy places.  If we
don't bring love and hope to prisons, where would we bring them to?

(I also know that while most people of the world don't care about prisons,
many monks and nuns do care sincerely and seriously.  That is why I
specifically ask about their works inside prisons in my previous message).

2.  As a matter of social engineering, I believe that if we lift up the
bottom of the society, we will automatically lift up the entire society.
Say, you have a pond, if you lift up the bottom of the pond (by filling some
dirt in, for example), the whole volume of water will be raised up,
including the surface layer of water.

I believe that, in order to lift up the entire society, we need to lift up
its bottom--the poor, the powerless, the oppressed, the abused, the
imprisoned.  Needless to say, this solution is the opposite of the solution
usually favored by the top layer of the society--lifting up the society by
lifting up the rich and the powerful.

BTW, for some reporters out there who are looking for interesting subjects
to write:  How about an in-depth series on on prison life?

Thanks, Thanh Thanh, for giving me such good news.

Have a great day!
Hoanh

On Nov 23, 2007 11:08 PM, Hoang Thanh <httmail at gmail.com> wrote:

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> i have an auntie who is a sister of Catholic. She currently works in Ma
> Tuy (drugs seller or addictor) prison like "nguoi giup do tinh than cua cac
> tu nhan". She told interesting story that how prisoner are helped to improve
> spiritual life to streghthens themselves. Every Sunday, there is priest
> invited to do holy mass in there. My auntie said these usually kept
> informed, The monks work silently and commited.
>
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> 2007/11/24, Tran Dinh Hoanh <tdhoanh at gmail.com>:
> >
> > [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
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> > Dear CACC,
> >
> > It is good that Vietnam is hosting a conference on prison management.
> >
> > One of the questions that has been pricking at my mind off and on is the
> > soft side of the prison  (What soft side, you may ask :-).   Prison is
> > supposed to be the place to rehabilitate people.  That is theory.  In
> > practice, many prisons around the world are true hell.  I have often
> > wondered how the prison is managed in Vietnam?  Is there real
> > education?  Are there social workers and counsellors?  Is there spiritual
> > guidance, like priests and monks volunteering to visit prisons often?  Do
> > prisoners have an opportunity to have church service?
> >
> > I believe that spiritual life has a lot to do with giving the prisoners
> > strength to go on and to redo their life.
> >
> > Does anyone has any glimpse inside a prison in Vietnam to share?
> >
> > Have a great day!
> >
> > Hoanh
> >
> > --
> > Tran Dinh Hoanh, Esq., LLB, JD
> > Washington DC
> >
>
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