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Through intimate letters, interviews, and stories, this narrative reveals the impact that a life-changing retreat had on a group of inmates at the highest level maximum-security state prison in Alabama. The 38 participants in the first-ever intensive, silent 10-day program inside the walls of a corrections facility many serving life sentences without parole detail the range of their experiences, the depth of their understanding of the Buddha s teachings gained by direct experience, and their setbacks and successes. During the Vipassana meditation program, they face the past and their miseries and emerge with a sense of peace and purpose. This compelling story shows the capacity for commitment, self-examination, renewal, and hope within a dismal penal system and a wider culture that demonizes prisoners. "
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Phillips, Jenny
- ISBN: 9781928706311
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.80 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 220
- Publication Year: 2008