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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.
Doing Time, Doing Vipassana is a 1997 Israeli independent documentary film project by two women filmmakers from Israel: Ayelet Menahemi and Eilona Ariel.The film is about the application of the vipassana meditation technique taught by S. N. Goenka to prisoner rehabilitation at Tihar Jail in India [1] (which was reputed to be an exceptionally harsh prison). [2]
The Work is a 2017 American documentary film following three civilians on a four-day group therapy retreat with men who are incarcerated at Folsom State Prison. The film is the directorial debut of Jairus McLeary and was co-directed by Gethin Aldous. Jairus McLeary produced the film with Alice Henty and his brothers Eon McLeary and Miles McLeary.
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 ]
The story of their escape from prison made national headlines at the time, and it’s being revisited in a new Netflix documentary, “Jailbreak: Love on the Run.” ...
Lyle and Eric Menendez are speaking out in a new Netflix documentary.. The brothers, who are both incarcerated at Donovan Correctional Facility in California, were interviewed in 15-minute ...
Erik Menendez thought he and his brother, Lyle, were going to the same prison after their 1996 convictions for killing their parents.. He had no idea how wrong he was. Convicted in 1996 of ...
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.