"Researchers at the New York University College of Nursing (NYUCN), the University of Miami, and the Lionheart Foundation in Boston, found that mindfulness training, a meditation-based therapy, can improve attention skills in incarcerated youth, paving the way to greater self-control over emotions and actions. It is the first study to show that mindfulness training can be used in combination with cognitive behavioral therapy to protect attentional functioning in high-risk incarcerated youth....
"The researchers followed 267 incarcerated males, ages 16 to 18, over a 4-month period. The researchers found that participation in an intervention that combined cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness training (or "CBT/MT"), called Power Source, had a protective effect on youths' attentional capacity. This research is the largest controlled study of mindfulness training for youth to date...."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-10-nyu-incarcerated-youth-potential-anti-social.html
Leonard, et al. (2013). "Mindfulness Training Improves Attentional Task Performance in Incarcerated Youth: A Group Randomized Controlled Intervention Trial." Frontiers in Psychology. Abstract. Full text.
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