Prison Program Case Studies: Success stories
Prison - Morocco
On the 15th of January 2007, we conducted the first Prison SMART course in Morrocco thanks to the efforts of Amina and Ibrahim Slaoui, Directors of IAHV Morrocco and Nathalie Schaller, Morrocco. Thirty...
Prison - Philippines
Bringing The Art of Living Course to the New Bilibid Prison could very well be the best thing that happened to its 107 inmates in May. Prisoners are metaphorically and literally pushed to the edge of the...
Prison-Program - Kenya
Kamiti Prison Program March 2010 we conducted the first Prison SMART course in Kamiti, the maximum security prison in Kenya. Over 100 inmates benefited through the Prison SMART course. This prison has...
The Art of Living Programs at The Dominican Republic's New Model Prisons
The Art of Living Foundation has recently signed an agreement with the Dominican Republic’s National Penitentiary School, to conduct Stress Management And Rehabilitation Training (SMART) programs at 12...
Prisoner rehabilitation in Taiwan
Since 2004, The Art of Living’s Prison Smart Program has found its roots in five correctional facilities of Taiwan as a way of rehabilitating the inmates. The Tucheng Detention Center offers a five-day...
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...
Prison SMART in Tihar Jail
Tihar Jail The Prison SMART program was introduced in Tihar Jail in 1999. More than 120,000 inmates from prisons in India have undergone the Prison SMART program with spectacular results. In Tihar Jail...
Smiling Uniforms
It is rare to see a smiling, calm and an energetic policeman (women included) on the streets of India. But, for the citizens of the far northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, this won’t be a rare scenario. ...
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....
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...
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,...
Sultan of Swings Settles Deep Within
Its 3 o clock in the afternoon. He had been planning and waiting for this day since almost three weeks. He ran the plan carefully in his mind. "finish the dishes...press his 'seth's' feet till he falls...
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...
‘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...