Avatar is a sleazy and obvious Scientology rip-off that can only be successful with the dumbest of clients. No wonder Low and Walsh want in on the prison system gravy train. AK is a collection of parlor tricks promoted by crackpot chiropractor George Goodheart in 1974 as a method of medical diagnosis. AK practitioners are, at best, sad deluded people, and at worst, disgusting con artists. Representative Allen would be wise to ignore them.
Representative government is always in danger of embracing popular but wacky ideas.
If this conference were a serious forum put on by serious people the keynote address would have been given by a former warden, activist ex-con or a social studies academic. Instead they choose a woman whose cotton candy idea of spirituality insists that thinking alone can change the world, and they invite quacks and cultists whose programs are founded on chicanery and exploitation. The irony is that prison denizens are such low living wretches that any form of human contact, even this well marketed yet empty drivel, is bound to help. Sorry about the attitude, but that's my job. I do that.