Sent recently by a Japanese friend:
Report: Yoga Stir Tempers in Norway Prison
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Wednesday, August 3, 2005
(08-03) 13:07 PDT OSLO, Norway (AP) --
A Norwegian prison has stopped giving yoga sessions to inmates after finding
that some
of the prisoners became more aggressive and agitated, a newspaper reported
Wednesday.
The yoga classes were introduced on at trial basis earlier this year at
Ringerike prison,
which holds some of Norway's most dangerous criminals.
Prison officials had hoped meditation and breathing exercises would help
inmates contain
their anger, but it appeared to have the opposite effect.
Some inmates became more agitated and aggressive, while others developed
sleeping
problems as a result of the yoga sessions, prison warden Sigbjoern Hagen told
newspaper
Ringerikes Blad. Hagen said that deep breathing exercises could make the
inmates more
dangerous, by unblocking their psychological barriers.
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/08/03/international/
i081302D42.DTL
©2006 Associated Press
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