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Panel Discussion on Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall and Prison Hospice Care
Recorded: July 2021
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Webinar Guest Speakers:
Edgar Barens – Documentary Filmmaker
Lorie Adoff – Spiritual Avisor
Dr. Denise Taylor – Physician and Surgeon, Family Medical Specialist
Webinar Moderator:
Kris Kington-Barker – INELDA Doula
Prisoners are human beings, and we need to think about how, as a society, we are going to deal with the fact that many are growing old and are destined to die in prison. There is a way for the terminally ill prisoner to die with dignity behind the walls – and prison-based, prisoner-run hospice is one of the answers. – Edgar A. Barens
This month’s member-only webinar will feature the film Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall. The award-winning documentary is a moving, inside view at what humane end-of-life care can be like inside prison walls. And why efforts like those of the Humane Prison Hospice Project are so important. View the HBO Trailer
The film will be followed by a Q&A Panel Discussion with Edgar Barens, Filmmaker, Denise Richards, MD – California Men’s Colony (CMC) and Lorie Adoff – Spiritual Advisor CMC-retired, as they talk about the challenges faced in bringing hospice care inside prisons, efforts made, successes, and the work still ahead.
Documentary Filmmaker:
Edgar Barens, Filmmaker
As a documentary filmmaker Edgar Barens has had a notable record of successful production in very stressful prison environments. Edgar’s academy award nominated (2014) documentary- Prison Terminal- has been shown in hundreds of prisons, colleges, universities, and other community centers.
Over the years he has established supportive relationships with both prison authorities and prisoners themselves, among the most important elements for ensuring successful film projects.
As documentarian/speaker/presenter for the Humane Prison Hospice Project, based in California, Barens and his colleagues take on the mission to extol the benefits of the few positive programs that exist today behind bars in hopes that other facilities will emulate the prisoner-involved hospice program and instill much needed dignity to dying in prison for all concerned.
Guest Speakers:
Lorie Adoff, Spiritual Advisor
Lorie Adoff retired as the spiritual advisor from California Men’s Colony after 13 years of service. She helped plan, develop, implement and facilitate the Supportive Care Services Program, a hospice-based program working with Inmate volunteers to companion dying inmates.
She earned her Masters Degree in Religious Studies from the University of Detroit, a diploma in spiritual direction from the Monastery of the Risen Christ. She completed a 2-year course of studies with the Anam Cara Project at the Sacred Art of Living Center in Bend, Oregon, on death and dying and companioning the dying, becoming a facilitator for the Project. She is an Oblate with the New Camaldoli Hermitage in Big Sur striving daily to enter more fully into the contemplative life while enjoying her life in San Luis Obispo. Currently she is writing a book on the transformation of the human spirit within the prison environment.
Dr. Denise Taylor, Physician, Surgeon and Family Medicine Specialist
Is currently Chief Physician and Surgeon, California Men’s Colony and a Family Medicine Specialist in San Luis Obispo California with over 32 years of experience in the medical field. She is an American Academy of HIV Medicine Specialist and has been a Transgender health care provider since 2000.
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