Can Transcendental Meditation help rehabilitate prison inmates?
by Arielle Feldman for the Transcendental Meditation Blog, June 20, 2012
According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) more than 2 million adults are incarcerated in federal and state prisons, and county jails in the United States. Additionally, more than 5 million adults are on probation or on parole. In total, more than 7 million people are under correctional supervision (probation, parole, jail, or prison) — about 3.1% of adults in the U.S. resident population.
Statistics indicate that more than 65% of those released from prison are rearrested, reconvicted, and return to prison within three years of release.
Can the Transcendental Meditation program help address this problem? Forty years of research and experience in the US correctional system offers a resounding “Yes!”
Robert:
“I changed a lot from when I first got incarcerated. Once I started meditating, it just went through the roof….
“I used to fight a lot, now that I’ve been meditating I’m a lot more calm, and nothing angers me like it used to.”
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Comment by Wilde Thang on July 17, 2012 at 1:29pm -
Rehabilitation and being allowed to live a noraml life are two different things.... now that that we are becoming a police state it is getting harder and harder with national databases... but the system is in the beginning stages of catastrophic failure so there's little to be done...now that the gloves are off there are no principles in society... this is the century of learning how to live within the means of our planet without wasted resources on wars of destruction and reconstruction profiteering, excessive accumulation of wealth by a few, population growth economics, and poisoning the very planet we live on. Western civilization is crazy so meditation is your only refuge...
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