[FairfieldLife] freedom behind bars

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https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/prisons.html#video=z97bWkObdkU 
https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/prisons.html#video=z97bWkObdkU 

[FairfieldLife] FREEDOM BEHIND BARS:

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FREEDOM BEHIND BARS: Transforming lives of inmates and guards
by Bob Roth   on May 21, 2010
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Before you read this, take a few minutes to watch this short video about
the Transcendental Meditation program in an Oregon prison. Just take the
time and watch the video below. Then read what I have to say.



There are few experiences in life comparable to standing in front of a
corrections officer at a maximum security prison with miles of barbed
wire and massive walls and thick steel gates and then signing your name
to an agreement, which states, basically, that if you are taken hostage
by an inmate prison officials will not negotiate for your release.
Feeling wary does not quite do justice to the emotions. I first had that
sense twenty years ago when I taught the TM technique in San Quentin
Prison  , which sits,
almost bucolically by the Bay, just north of San Francisco, in Marin
County. Here is the street address for some of the toughest, most
hardened criminals in California.

  [Prison-Bars] 
 I had
been invited in to teach TM to the inmates and security officers—and
the results of the practice on the life of the men were extraordinary.
These included the umbrella term of "reduced rule infractions"
(big in the world behind bars that includes drug and alcohol use,
violent behaviors, etc.) as well as, most importantly, a 50% reduction
in recidivism rates among meditating inmates three years after release
from prison. Such numbers are, of course, unheard of in the field of
corrections, where the notion of rehabilitation has seemingly been
replaced by the policy of warehousing prisoners.

There was considerable interest among many top corrections officials to
offer the TM technique systemically throughout the prison system, but a
perfect storm of politics, state budgetary cutbacks, and a general
disbelief among some of the top brass in California corrections that
anything could work as well as TM led to putting the program on the back
burner.

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 No more. As you can see in this short video from an Oregon prison, the
TM technique is re-emerging as a viable, highly effective tool for
inmates to use to reduce the acute stresses of prison life (which fuel
substance abuse and violence behind bars), optimize an inmate's time
for constructive endeavors while incarcerated, and inevitably, reduce
their likeliness to return to prison once released. (Recidivism rates
  can be as high as 80 percent.)

The need for something in prisons to do what the TM program does is
obvious. The terrifically high cost of crime
 , heavy cutbacks in
prison budgets, and the genuine intent among many in corrections to help
the men and women behind bars is driving this upsurge of interest.

But of course, this is all me just talking. To get an inkling of what it
is like in prison and how this meditation is transforming the lives of
inmates, I hope you can take a moment to watch the compelling mini-doco
above, created by DLF.TV videographer, Amine Kouider.

See David Lynch Foundation   for more documentary video
of TM projects that are currently being funded.

[FairfieldLife] Freedom behind bars: DLF Television

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Meditation in prison:
http://dlf.tv/2010/freedom-behind-bars/

The Slum project:
http://dlf.tv/2010/saving-the-disposable-ones/#trailer

David Lynch Painting Exhibition
http://dlf.tv/2010/david-lynch-painting-exhibition/