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  2. The Dhamma Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Dhamma Brothers is a documentary film released in 2007 about a prison meditation program at Donaldson Correctional Facility near Bessemer, Alabama.The film features four inmates, all convicted of murder, and includes interviews with guards, prison officials, local residents and other inmates, and reenactments of their crimes.

  3. Prison Mindfulness Institute - Wikipedia

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    The Prison Mindfulness Institute (previously the Prison Dharma Network) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 with the mission of supporting prisoners and prison volunteers in transformation through meditation and contemplative spirituality in prisons.

  4. Prison contemplative programs - Wikipedia

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    Prison contemplative programs are classes or practices (which includes meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer or similar) that are offered at correctional institutions for inmates and prison staff. There are measured or anecdotally reported benefits from studies of these programs such a stress relief for inmates and staff. [ 1 ]

  5. Mindfulness - Wikipedia

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    Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a mindfulness-based program [web 26] developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, which uses a combination of mindfulness meditation, body awareness, and yoga to help people become more mindful. [2]

  6. Thích Nhất Hạnh - Wikipedia

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    Nhất Hạnh began teaching mindfulness in the mid-1970s with his books, particularly The Miracle of Mindfulness (1975), serving as the main vehicle for his early teachings. [45] In an interview for On Being , he said that The Miracle of Mindfulness was "written for our social workers, first, in Vietnam, because they were living in a situation ...

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.

  8. Time: the BBC drama trying to capture the grim reality of ...

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    IN FOCUS: Many of the women in prison are there for low-level crimes, but short sentences for non-violent offences can upend their entire lives, leaving them at risk of losing their job, home and ...

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...