Criminon Texas giving presentation to Juvenile Probation Officers on 19 January 2011

OTBT · Jan 14, 2011

http://www.tjpc.state.tx.us/Regiona...asp?ID={9423EB97-2355-42D6-8638-7A75215CBB8A}

Program Description

The Cameron County Juvenile Justice Center invites you to attend the South Texas Area Regional Training Conference in Beautiful South Padre Island.

Registration is $20.00 and the hotel rate is $75.00 including free breakfast. Registration should be paid by check made payable to S.T.A.R.T.

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Agenda

01/19/2011
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Ricardo Barrera – Criminon / Effective Criminal Reform and Crime Prevention Program
Joseph Saucedo – Narconon / Drug Effects on the Mind and Body

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

wow nice find!!
This is coming up fast... Next Wednesday!
so POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONS needed!

They may be interested to know about what happened in New Mexico:
http://www.lermanet.com/fraud/rick-pendry.htm

Ricardo Barrera ROUTE TO INFINITY COURSE Freewinds 33 1999-06-01
Ricardo Barrera CLEAR Celebrity 341 2002-09-01
Ricardo Barrera SUNSHINE RUNDOWN Celebrity 341 2002-09-01

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Cameron County Directory:

http://www.co.cameron.tx.us/cameron/directory.html

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Preparing to fire Poons.

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

BUMP!!
BUMP!!
BUMP!!

The poons need to go out NOW!
Oh hai Ricardo!

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

good vids to forward:
Tell them that Second Chance in New Mexcio was the same program

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxwET_svV_0

Doesn't Scientology's website have these two logos (Criminon and Narconon) at the bottom of their home page now? Or am I mistaken?
A screen cap would be nice!
proxy up noobs

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Attendees should be on the watch out for a kitchen sink.

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Wikipedia has this to say about criminon:

Some critics question the long-term success of Criminon's program citing a lack of independent, peer-reviewed studies.[5] As Criminon's Web site notes, the core of the prison program is the booklet, The Way to Happiness.
In 1997, Judge Stephen Rushing, a Pinellas County, Florida, judge, received criticism and raised eyebrows from other judges when he began sentencing defendants to a program called "Impulse Control" that was run by Criminon. Rushing said the people running the course promised they would not try to convert anyone. However the paper noted that many critics have suggested that Criminon was being used as a recruiting tool. Rushing stated that if the program turned out to be nothing but a ploy to promote Scientology, "I owe an apology to the people I put in that program."[6]
Criminon has also been criticized for promoting Scientology's hostile view of psychiatry. A Criminon instruction manual found at California's Corcoran Prison in 2005 instructs the supervisors who are supposed to be helping the inmates to encourage them to stop taking any psychiatric medication. "Most jails and prisons have a staff psychiatrist that goes in daily and gives dosages of various and sundry mind-altering drugs to the inmates. Most of the time this is a ploy to keep the inmates sedated so that they don't cause trouble", the manual stated. While Criminon claimed that this manual was "outdated", the replacement manual still advised that if inmates seemed angry, it may be because "some of them are on psychiatric drugs and have strange side effects as a result."[5] Professor Stephen A. Kent said that Scientology's goal "is to destroy psychiatry and replace it with Scientology's own treatments. Criminon is simply one of many Scientology organizations that hope to see this goal realized."[5]
In 2006, in New Mexico, government funding for the Second Chance program was cut when information on the program and its connections came to light.[8][2]
Then Nevada assembly member Sharron Angle supported the use of "Second Chance Program" in 2003.[9] Angle sponsored legislation aimed at placing this program in women's prisons in Nevada.[9]

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Good link to send
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/organisations.htm

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

There is a media link: info@tjpc.state.tx.us

Hi,

I am a freelance writer/novelist. I maintain accounts online with regional news sites. I may write an article about pig hunting for a S. Carolina site, or follow something newsworthy in Fargo. (that has never happened, by the way.)

I am currently researching material on state juvenile programs, and I came across this article. It caught my attention because a couple of years ago, I wrote a series of articles on Scientology.

http://www.tjpc.state.tx.us/Regiona...asp?ID={9423EB97-2355-42D6-8638-7A75215CBB8A}

This is a sign up page for the South Texas Area Regional Training Conference, sponsored by your office. The first two speakers represent Criminon and Narconon, two Scientology front groups.

01/19/2011
1:00pm – 5:00pm
Ricardo Barrera – Criminon / Effective Criminal Reform and Crime Prevention Program
Joseph Saucedo – Narconon / Drug Effects on the Mind and Body

While representatives are quick to deny links with the Scientology organization, the fact is that both of these entities are on the corporate chart under the Association For Better Living and Education umbrella, which answers to the top entity, Religious Technology Center.

I want to write a piece examining how Scientology manages to convince community officials that its programs are useful and beneficial. When the programs are reviewed, like the Narconon educational outreach program in California was, the program was dismissed as unscientific and potentially dangerous. The Narconon program was subsequently expelled from public schools in California, Hawaii, Boston and Buffalo, NY.

The Criminon program is nearly identical to the Narconon program, only targeting inmates rather than addicts.

I hope this is enough background information for what I'd like to know.

1. Was any research done on the Narconon/Criminon program?
2. Who introduced these organizations to START?
3. Why were they included in the program?
4. Are any measures taken to weed out bogus or fraudulent organizations?

I find it very interesting that two organizations with a vast amount of negative information on them as fraudulent recruitment tools of the Scientology organization would be included and given legitimacy by inclusion in this conference. If you google Criminon and Narconon, you will get promotional websites. Google them together with 'fraud, Scientology, abuse' and a different picture emerges.

Any comments you could give me would be appreciated and useful.

xenubarb · Jan 14, 2011

Hm. People love talking to reporters.

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

nice!
Hope they ask themselves those questions.
Nice work to whomever posted it.

More poons are needed

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

This smells like another Juan Villarreal project.

Related thread--

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/thre...to-host-narconon-criminon.65838/#post-1320766

Anonymous · Jan 14, 2011

Another related thread--

http://forums.whyweprotest.net/thre...in-harlingen-tx-in-october.30202/#post-653997

timthephoto · Jan 14, 2011

http://fairgamestop.org/project/overview-of-scientology/113-list-of-scientology-frontgroups.html

the pdf said:

Front Groups of Scientology/Sea Organisation
Keenly aware that their main brands of Dianetics and
Scientology are tarnished with the decades long list of
misdeeds, a web of deceptively named front groups has
been created for the three purposes of:
• Make the Name of L Ron Hubbard more acceptable within
society
• Gain political influence and affect policy to aid
dissemination of Scientology/Dianetics
• Raise money through soliciting donations
Often the front groups appear to be disconnected from
Scientology, at least on a company registration level, a
little more research though does in fact reveal the
connections.
• Company directors are all Scientologists
• The organisation relies heavily upon the written
works of L Ron Hubbard, for which a per use licence
fee is payable (to Scientology's copyright holding
company)
• Groups often push an agenda identical to that of
Scientology
• Organisations use the “Purification Rundown” as part
of medical treatments
An independent study of the Purification Rundown was
proposed in 1985 by Dr. Joseph Miceli, Associate
Professor of Paediatrics and Pharmacy, Children's
Hospital of Michigan.
Dr. Miceli's proposal suggested that the method might
actually have some value in reducing toxins (PBBs and
PCBs) from the body - but not for any of the reasons
suggested by its author, L. Ron Hubbard. However, the
Human Subject Review Committee at Wayne State University
refused to allow the study to proceed because it was
deemed unfit for human experimentation, according to Dr.
Doug Spathelf, research director at Central Michigan
University, and Dr. Daniel Graf, research director at
Wayne State University.

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