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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Teaching Meditation in Prison

Hi -

I REALLY enjoyed watching this.  The subject video has more than one topic.  At about the 52:08 mark, it shared about how teaching inmates meditation had some remarkable results.  They began the teaching at one of the most dangerous prisons in the U.S.A. -- W. E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Alabama.

After the selected inmates graduated, one correctional officer said about the participants:

- more relaxed
- easier to get along with
- don't cause as many problems

One of the administrator's said:

- better able to conduct themselves
- less angry
- more mindful
- increased emotional intelligence

The program has been expanded . . . 

Again, the story about the successful meditation program in the facility begins at about the 52:08 mark on the subject video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PCXeHNL3s8