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“The reformation or reclamation of the
criminal does not depend upon
punishment…but upon the reestablishment of
the criminal’s self-respect.”
L. Ron Hubbard.
Criminon—meaning “no crime”—is a
criminal rehabilitation program in which
inmates are participating in more than
1600 correctional facilities around the
world.
Criminon addresses the underlying
causes of criminality and provides a
rehabilitation program for both juvenile
and adult offenders so they learn the need
for honest and moral behavior, as well as
skills to lead a productive life in
society.
For more information, call:
CRIMINON INTERNATIONAL
(323) 962-2404
criminoninfo@criminon.org
Reducing Crime and Making a Safer
Environment
Our communities are today faced with
ever-higher rates of incarceration and
recidivism. This dangerous combination
forebodes growing crime and violence
unless something effective is done to
change our direction. Criminon
International is working to accomplish
that change in more than 1,600 prisons in
23 countries around the world.
All too frequently our children have
grown up in gang, crime and drug-ridden
cultures, and sending them to prison only
reinforces the criminal behavior they
learned on the streets. Criminon programs,
however, provide a way for people to
change and become productive, contributing
adults. In other words, true
rehabilitation of criminals is not only
possible, but happening.
Criminon helps offenders and at-risk
individuals in a variety of settings,
ranging from on-site programs delivered by
volunteers in juvenile halls to
correspondence courses which reach even
into the new super-maximum security
(“supermax”) prisons. In all,
approximately 7,000 offenders take
Criminon courses each week.
Whether delivered in person or through
the mail, the Criminon program consists of
a series of courses which helps offenders
understand the impact of influences in
their environment, of the consequences of
past choices and how to make better
choices in the future. The program
contains courses dealing with
interpersonal issues such as negative
influences and pressures which might
encourage reversion to crime, and issues
such as the consequences of drug use. But
the key to the rehabilitation program and
to the individual’s regaining of a sense
of personal self-worth, is The Way to
Happiness, a common-sense guide to better
living. Offenders who study this
non-religious moral code are then directed
to apply it.
Volunteers Help Prisoners Around the
World
Whether in on-site programs or via the
mail, trained Criminon volunteer
supervisors assist the individuals to
thoroughly apply these materials, giving
them a practical understanding of right
and wrong and the satisfactions of ethical
or social conduct—in some cases for the
first time in their lives.
“Even though I’m in jail, for the first
time I feel totally free. Before I was in
prison I was trafficking drugs and I had a
false personality. I had money and
material things but I could not go to the
street without looking over my shoulder.
Now that I’m in jail I feel free. I owe
this to the technology that changed the
conditions of my life. I’ll go out with a
different personality and feelings for
others.” — A.S.
“For me, Criminon is the spear that
conquers the domain of illiteracy and the
antisociality of the inhuman globe,
brightening the path that leads mankind to
live in harmony in a peaceful and social
mannered universe. It has healed me and in
turn, it gave me access to heal those who,
like my past, are still suffering from
antisocial behaviors. So from death it
resurrected me to work with my nation and
with the universe, towards building a
social common goal.“ — S.A.C.
“The Way to Happiness course definitely
was an integral and a much-needed part of
my recovery. It provided me with an
opportunity to take a look at and relearn
some morals, principles and family values
that I had long ago suppressed and stopped
applying to my life. This course has been
like a rebirth, my reintroduction to a
civilized, peaceful, law-abiding and
productive way of life.” — R.E.
“Since I have started The Way to
Happiness Correspondence Course and
practiced the values, I have learned from
it. I have seen my life changing and I
have gained a lot of respect among the
people I live and stay with and some are
now coming to ask advice from me. I’m
experiencing a lot of trust from people I
thought did not trust me. Even officers
who are in charge are believing in me.
Criminon has turned my life around with
the morals and values it has instilled in
me.” — I.C.L.
“As far as success goes because of my
imprisonment for the past decade of my
incarceration, I’ve felt like a born
loser, but after becoming involved with
the Criminon The Way to Happiness
Correspondence Course, I feel a sense of
pride in myself for what I have achieved
and gained through my involvement with the
Criminon courses I have undertaken thus
far. I feel like I’m born again! Because
for the past ten years I was dead and now
because of Criminon I can now see and look
at the world through the eyes of a child
because I have now discovered an unlimited
potential that is vested in me. The
roadblock I have felt for a decade was a
negative mindset on my part not through
affirmation. I feel I can do anything. I
set out to do and succeed. I have come to
terms with my past and feel only
confidence and optimism for the future and
all its challenges and for this, I will
forever be grateful to the Founding Father
of Criminon and his staff and volunteers
at large.” — L.M.
“ Through my personal studies with
Criminon each day has become a success.
It’s a wonderful experience in life
knowing that the help I’ve learned to give
out comes back and in itself expands on
and on to the next man, woman and child.
That they come into a self awareness— of
the need to change for the good of all
life. Because mankind must be the
protectors and the watchers of all life on
earth.
“Through these courses, I’ve leaped
many steps upwards and with each step and
every success I’ve had, I experience even
more happiness on helping others on to
their own road to happiness, even here in
prison.
“Thank you Criminon supervisors, staff
and all my friends for the most amazing
journey & opportunities in life. And a
special thanks to Kathy for your help and
dedication to get me through each course,
each lesson and making sure I know
everything.“ — R.H.
“The Criminon course, Handling Drugs,
has taught me that there are many degrees
of drug abuse, involving both medical and
street drugs. That drugs dull the senses
and gradually effects a person’s
alertness, his reaction time and his
emotions. Even after he has done drugs and
they wore off, they are still there in the
fatty tissues.
“Rehabilitation technology developed by
L. Ron Hubbard has taught me how to
recognize the symptoms of toxic and street
drugs with proper treatment and simple
objective exercises. I was able to help
two friends painlessly get off drugs,
handle the physical and mental effects and
take back control of their lives. And they
still remain drug-free to this very day!”
M. S.
What Officials Have to Say
With 60 to 80 percent reductions in
recidivism rates common among Criminon
graduates, the program is taking effective
measures to return to our communities not
hardened criminals primed to commit
further anti-social acts, but truly
rehabilitated men and women who are able
to contribute to the improvement and
productivity of society.
“The success of the programme so far
has been remarkable and I am very pleased
with the results obtained.
“Since the implementation of the
programme the workload of the juvenile
court has dropped from 30 cases per month
to just two; the rest were successfully
diverted away from the criminal justice
system.”
Chief Magistrate Moldenhauer
Pretoria Magistrate Court
South Africa
“Current methods employed by the prison
system have been utterly ineffective—the
upshot of which is the currently high rate
of recidivism. The rehabilitative
technology employed by Criminon represents
the only truly workable means to handle
the increasingly burdensome criminal
populations.”
Robert F. Henderson,
Captain New York
State Department of
Correctional Services
“In the prison of Ensenada, with the
Criminon program called ‘Second Chance,’
we have worked with the most incorrigible
and worst prisoners of the entire state.
And we have seen them change. With the
methods of Mr. Hubbard, they recover their
own self-respect. They have converted
themselves into productive beings. But not
only have they won; also their families
and society have won. I am sure that these
individuals never again will walk down the
dark, lonely road of crime and drugs.”
Francisco Iribe
Former Chief of Police,
Mexicali, Mexico
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