Tihar Prompts B'desh to Introduce Meditation in Prisons from OutlookIndia.com
Bangladesh has introduced a meditation course for its jail inmates with prison officials saying the pioneering work at India's Tihar jail prompted them to launch the service to reform prisoners.
"In the past three years of my experience as the prison chief, I saw same people
are coming back to jail committing the same crime as our routine
counselling service appeared to be of little use. They actually need
spiritual and mental purification," Inspector General of Prisons
Brigadier General Mohammad Ashraful Islam Khan told PTI.
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