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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.
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.
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.” ...
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.
An inmate who was featured in the Netflix series Unlocked: A Jail Experiment has died in prison, one month before his scheduled release date.. John McAllister, also known by his nickname ...
“Everyone asks why we killed our parents,” says Lyle, in an audio interview from prison for the documentary The Menendez Brothers, which begins streaming Oct. 7. “Maybe now people can ...
In 2000, the film was nominated for best direction in a documentary by the Australian Film Institute. [ 7 ] In 2001, Courtin created Chasing Buddha Pilgrimage, [ 8 ] which lead pilgrimages to Buddhist holy sites in India, Nepal , and Tibet to raise money for the Liberation Prison Project [ 9 ] an association engaged for the Tibetan cause.