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- Zen toolbox offers path to peace for prisoners (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
How can you make prisoners better people once they leave life behind bars? Try a Zen-like approach of nonviolent communication and meditation. Both can soothe the criminal mind. - Looking at changed lives on death row (Boston Globe)
"Every person is more than the worst thing they've ever done." If you have trouble with that concept, voiced by a prisoners' rights activist, you'll have trouble with "The Dhamma Brothers," a sincere but unevenly made documentary about Buddhism on death row. If, on the other hand, you believe that even murderers have the right to inner peace - which ... - Prisoners take enlightened path (Boston Herald)
"The Dhamma Brothers" documentary is full of good intentions, but ultimately falls short of itspotential. Concord-based cultural anthropologist and psychotherapist... - Big-house meditation (The Oregonian)
Documentaries about the U.S. penal system generally fall into one of two types: shocking indictment of barbarity behind bars or uplifting chronicle of the human potential for change. In other words, you either get the HBO series "Oz" or you get "The Shawshank Redemption." - The Dhamma Brothers (The Phoenix)
Meditation rehabilitating prisoners Since the US has more people in prison than any other country, shouldn’t we be working on an effective method of rehabilitation? - "The Dhamma Brothers": The transformative power of Buddhist meditation in a U.S. prison (Seattle Times)
The question of how convicted criminals should spend their time while incarcerated is one of those evergreen issues on talk radio or in...