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Can Yoga and Meditation really help the most violent criminals in America?

East meets West in the Deep South. An overcrowded maximum-security prison-the end of the line in Alabama’s correctional system-is dramatically changed by the influence of an ancient meditation program. Behind high security towers and a double row of barbed wire and electrical fence dwells a host of convicts who will never see the light of day.

But for some of these men, a spark is ignited when it becomes the first maximum-security prison in North America to hold an extended Vipassana retreat, an emotionally and physically demanding course of silent meditation lasting ten days. The Dhamma Brothers tells a dramatic tale of human potential and transformation as it closely follows and documents the stories of the prison inmates at Donaldson Correction Facility who enter into this arduous and intensive program.

The Truth : The Dhamma Brothers is a very interesting look at what can happen when you change the pattern of thinking in even the worst criminals. A positive movie about the effects of meditation on the most hardened, neglected and forgotten inmates in Alabama.

The film lets us in the heads of the people invovled in the criminal system and what effects they have noticed with this alterior method of rehabilitation.

The Verdict : A very enjoyable documentary on a very controversial issue, check it out.

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