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  1. Wedding bells in a Belgian prison

    After a life-altering Prison Program, trials, tribulations and bombardment of affection, Marco gets married Love stories are always heart-warming to hear. Especially, when love comes your way when you least expect it and yet need it the most. Marco's ...
  2. ‘Convicts like family’: a policeman’s unique perspective

    Among many policemen who serve the nation and maintain law and order, meet DSP of Ranchi who has walked an extra mile for transforming the lives of policemen and prisoners. “Even if it is a convict, I have learned to believe that nobody is bad." A ve ...
  3. A Jail Daughter

    Indu Sinha has worked for the stress-relief of 5,000 prisoners across seven prisons in India. One morning, Indu Sinha, who was visiting her home state of Bihar, read a feature in the local newspaper of a massacre in Senari village where Naxalites beheaded ...
  4. A Drug Addict, Prisoner & Now A School Teacher

    A man ready to kill and a man adored by parents. Two different people, right? Wrong. Dara Singh was a simple boy, a farmer’s son, growing up in the remote village of Khera in Rajasthan. His turning point came when he had to leave home to attend school. In ...
  5. Freedom beyond bars

    30 inmates’ journey from being criminals to youth leaders Splashing the water on his face from the slow running tap, the breaking dawn rays pierces in his eyes, waking him up to the just-another day. He takes a bath, wears regular white clothes and a Gand ...
  6. Prison Smart, the Great Growth in Argentina

    Breathing For Freedom Since 2006 thousands of Argentine prisoners have completed regular Art of Living courses including, Advanced Meditation Courses (Part 2), Sri Sri Yoga  and pre-Teachers Training Course. Ismael Mastrini, a lawyer, closed his firm to d ...
  7. Yoga Behind Bars

    None of those prisoners who have done Sudarshan Kriya have come back to jail till date, shares Sadashiv Kamath, a prison program teacher, teaching actively in the Mangalore central jail. Regular courses, where the Sudarshan Kriya and other practical techn ...
  8. Sultan of swings settles deep within

    Its 3 o clock in the afternoon. He had been planning and waiting for this day for almost three weeks. He ran the plan carefully in his mind. “Finish the dishes...press his 'seth's' (employer’s) feet till he falls into his afternoon nap. Lea ...
  9. Love In The Life Of A Criminal

    Unfathomable are the ways of Love! With love comes compassion, belongingness. Love has no border, it sees no color, it doesn’t differentiate, it embraces all. Even the toughest of criminals, when shown compassion, bow down with folded hands and surrender ...
  10. The gift of a yoga mat

    At the outset of a prisoner rehabilitation course in Peru’s Piedras Gordas Prison, the prisoners were given a gift: a yoga mat. The mat could have been passed off as something to make the course more comfortable and obviously would be returned after the c ...